Eldamo : Quenya : undu

Q. undu adv. “down, under” (Category: Down, Below, Beneath)

Q. undu, adv. “down, under, [ᴹQ.] beneath” (Category: Down, Below, Beneath)

An adverb in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “down, under, beneath” under the root ᴹ√UNU, parallel to amba “up(wards)” (Ety/UNU). It was also used as a prefix meaning “down, under” in unduláve “swallowed = down-licked” from the Namárië “poem” (LotR/377; PE17/72). As a prefix, it had a shorter form un(u)- as in untup- “cover down” (PE17/73) and [ᴹQ.] unutikse “under dot [in writing]” (Ety/TIK).

Conceptual Development: A rejected page of verbal roots from the Quenya Verbal System (QVS) of 1948 had ᴹQ. undu “down from on high” (prefixal form unu-) and ᴹQ. undo “down, low down”, both based on ᴹ√NDŪ (PE22/127).

References ✧ PE17/72-73; RGEO/59

Glosses

“down” ✧ RGEO/59
“down, under” ✧ PE17/72
“under-” ✧ PE17/72

Variations

undu- ✧ PE17/72; PE17/72; PE17/73; RGEO/59

un- = undu- ✧ PE17/73

Inflections

un-

prefix

✧ PE17/73

Element In

ᴺQ. !undalasar “stalactite, (lit.) down-growing stone”
ᴺQ. !unutengw(i)ë “subtitle(s)”
Q. undómë “twilight, time near evening”
Q. undulav- “to drown, swallow, submerge, (lit.) lick down” ✧ PE17/72 (undu-lav-); PE17/72 (undu-láve)
Q. #untup- “to cover (over or up), lie as a covering upon, (lit.) to cover down” ✧ PE17/73 (untúpa)
Q. ar lumbulë undulávë ilyë tier “and (heavy) shadow swallowed (lit. down-licked) all roads” ✧ RGEO/59

Derivations

< √NŪ/UNU “down, under; go down, sink”

ᴹQ. undu adv. “down, under, beneath” (Category: Down, Below, Beneath)

See Q. undu for discussion.

References ✧ Ety/UNU; PE22/127

Glosses

“down from on high” ✧ PE22/127 (undu)
“down, under, beneath” ✧ Ety/UNU

Variations

undu ✧ Ety/UNU; PE22/127 (undu)

undu “down, under, beneath” parallel form to ama “up” ✧ Ety/UNU

Inflections

unu-

prefix

✧ PE22/127

Element In

ᴹQ. unutikse “dot or point placed below the line of writing” ✧ EtyAC/UNU (unutekse)

Derivations

< ᴹ√NDŪ “go down, sink, set (of Sun, etc.)” ✧ PE22/127 (NDŪ)
< ᴹ√NU/UNU “*down, under” ✧ Ety/UNU (UNU)

Phonetic Developments

ᴹ√UNU > undu	[undū] > [undu]	✧ Ety/UNU
ᴹ√NDŪ > undu	[undū] > [undu]	✧ PE22/127

ᴹQ. undo adv. “down, low down” (Category: Down, Below, Beneath)

See Q. undu for discussion.

Reference ✧ PE22/127 ✧ “down, low down”

Derivations

< ᴹ√NDŪ “go down, sink, set (of Sun, etc.)” ✧ PE22/127 (NDŪ)

Phonetic Developments

ᴹ√NDŪ > undo

[undo]

✧ PE22/127