Eldamo : Early Primitive Elvish : KUKU

?ᴱ√KUKU root.

⚠️?ᴱ√KUKU root.

A hypothetical root serving as the basic for words in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s like G. cug- “ponder, resolve, think, consider” and similar forms (GL/27). There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing.

Derivatives

> G. cug- “to ponder, resolve, think, consider”
- ⇒ G. cuctha “consideration” ✧ GL/27
  - ⇒ G. cucthol “painstaking” ✧ GL/27
- ⇒ G. cuno “care, thought, ‘pains’” ✧ GL/27
  - ⇒ G. cunghol “painstaking” ✧ GL/27