Eldamo : Early Quenya : ú

ᴱQ. ú prep. “beneath” (Category: Down, Below, Beneath)

⚠️ᴱQ. ú, prep. “beneath” (Category: Down, Below, Beneath): Q. nu “under, beneath”

A word in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “beneath” under the early root ᴱ√Ū¹ “under”, a variant of ᴱ√NŪ (QL/96). In the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon, Tolkien equated ᴱQ. ū to G. uf¹ “out of, forth, from” (GL/74).

References ✧ GL/74; QL/96

Glosses

“beneath” ✧ QL/96 (ū)

Variations

ū ✧ GL/74; QL/96

Cognates

G. uf¹ “out of, forth, from” ✧ GL/74

Derivations

< ᴱ√Ū¹ “under” ✧ QL/96

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√Ū¹ > ū

[ū]

✧ QL/96