Eldamo : Quenya : tuv-

Q. #tuv- v. (basic-verb) “to find, discover” (Category: to Find)

Q. #tuv-, v. (basic-verb) “to find, discover” (Category: to Find)

A verb for “find”, most notably appearing in the phrase utuvienyes “I have found it” when Aragorn found the White Tree of Gondor (LotR/971). It also has the sense “discover”, as in túvima “discoverable” (PE22/155).

Conceptual Development: In the sense “find”, ᴹQ. tuv- first appeared in Quenya Verbal System (QVS) from 1948 (PE22/101, 107), though it was (briefly) replaced by ᴹQ. kim- (PE22/108 note #50, PE22/125). In Tolkien’s earlier writings, ᴱQ. tuvu- meant “receive, take”, dating back to the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/96) and appearing as ᴹQ. tuvo “take” in the late 1940s as well (PE23/92). Conversely, the Early Quenya verb for “find” was ᴱQ. tuku-, appearing with the glosses “go in search of, look for, fetch” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√TUKU (QL/95) and appearing in a few other places as well (PE15/32; VT40/8).

Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would mainly use tuv- in the sense “find something new = discover”, as opposed to hir- = “find something previously lost”.

References ✧ LotR/971; PE17/110; PE22/155

#tuv- “to find, discover” vs. hir- “to find”
ᴹQ. tuvu- “to take” vs. #tuv- “to find, discover”

Inflections

tuvua	future		✧ PE22/155
†tuvuva	future	“will find”	✧ PE22/155
túva	future		✧ PE22/155
utuvienyes	perfect 1st-sg with-sg-object	“I have found it”	✧ PE17/110
utúvienyes	perfect 1st-sg with-sg-object	“I have found it”	✧ LotR/971
túva	present		✧ PE22/155

Element In

Q. túvima “discoverable”

ᴹQ. #tuv- v. (basic-verb) “to find” (Category: to Find)

See Q. #tuv- for discussion.

References ✧ PE22/101, 105, 107-108, 84; SD/57

Variations

TUV ✧ PE22/101; PE22/105

Changes

túvien >> nitúviet ✧ SD/57
nitúviet >> utúvienyes ✧ SD/57
[?in]túviet »» nitúviet ✧ PE22/84

Inflections

tuve	aorist	“finds”	✧ PE22/108
túva	future		✧ PE22/101; PE22/105
tuvalya	imperfect-participle		✧ PE22/107
†túlya	imperfect-participle		✧ PE22/107
túve	past	“found”	✧ PE22/108
utúvie	perfect	“has found”	✧ PE22/108
túvien	perfect 1st-sg; augmentless	“I have found it”	✧ SD/57
[?in]túviet	perfect 1st-sg with-sg-object	“I have found it”	✧ PE22/84
nitúviet	perfect 1st-sg with-sg-object	“I have found it”	✧ SD/57
utúvienyes	perfect 1st-sg with-sg-object	“I have found it”	✧ SD/57
tuvalya	present; long-imperfect		✧ PE22/101
túlya	present; long-imperfect		✧ PE22/101

Element In

ᴹQ. már akárielya e·tuve “he finds a house that is already built” ✧ PE22/108
ᴹQ. már akárielya e·utúvie “he has found a house that is already built” ✧ PE22/108
ᴹQ. már karnelya e·túve “he found a house that had been (already) built” ✧ PE22/108

ᴱQ. tuku- v. “to go in search of, look for, fetch” (Category: to Seek)

See Q. #tuv- for discussion.

References ✧ PE15/32; QL/95; VT40/8

Glosses

“go in search of, look for, fetch” ✧ QL/95

Variations

tuku ✧ QL/95

Inflections

Tukalla	active-participle		✧ VT40/8
tūke	past		✧ QL/95
tūkielto	past 3rd-pl	“*they have looked for”	✧ PE15/32

Element In

ᴱQ. tuktalla “*search”
ᴱQ. tukalla sangar úmeai “*attracting large throngs” ✧ VT40/8
ᴱQ. var limpilto var túkielto “*they are bound to or have looked for” ✧ PE15/32

Cognates

G. tug- “to hit, reach mark; to light on, chance on, find; to arrive; to chance, occur; to suit, fit, be convenient, ‘do’”

Derivations

< ᴱ√TUKU “*search, find” ✧ QL/95

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√TUKU > tuku

[tuku-]

✧ QL/95