N. tuia- v. “to sprout, spring; to swell” (Category: to Sprout, Bud, Blossom)
A verb appearing in its Noldorin-style infinitive form tuio in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√TUY “spring, sprout”, the cognate of ᴹQ. tuia “sprouts, springs” (Ety/TUY). Under the root ᴹ√TIW “fat, thick”, Tolkien said the verb tuio meant “to swell” and was cognate to ᴹQ. tiuya- (Ety/TIW). I suspect it was the result of a blending of these two roots and meanings: “sprout, spring” when applied to plants and “swell” otherwise.
Conceptual Development: The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had the similarly-derived G. tuitha- “sprout, spring, gush”, likely based on the early root ᴱ√TUẎU (GL/71; QL/96).
References ✧ Ety/TIW, TUY
Inflections
| tuio | infinitive | “to swell” | ✧ Ety/TIW |
| tuio | infinitive | “sprouts, springs” | ✧ Ety/TUY |
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Phonetic Developments
| ON. tuio- > tuio | [tuia-] | ✧ Ety/TIW |
G. tuitha- v. “to sprout, spring, gush” (Category: to Sprout, Bud, Blossom)
Reference ✧ GL/71 ✧ “sprout, spring, gush”
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