S. Drû pn. “Wose”
A Sindarin word for “Wose”, a loan word from the Wose’s name for themselves: Drughu (UT/385).
Conceptual Development: In his Words, Phrases and Passages from the Lord of the Rings from the late 1950s or early 1960s, Tolkien considered making this word a native Sindarin adjective “savage, wild” derived from the root √DROB, a variant of √SROB from which rhaw¹ “wild” was derived (PE17/99). These roots would produce the Q. cognate (h)róva instead of better established Q. (h)ráva “wild”, so I personally prefer the later derivation of Drû as a loan word from Wos. Drughu.
References ✧ PE17/99; UT/385; UTI/Drúath, Drúedain, Rú
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| Drúath | class-plural | ✧ UT/385; UTI/Drúath |
| Drúin | plural | ✧ UT/385; UTI/Drúath |
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| √D)ROB > drû | [drōb] > [drōv] > [drūv] > [drū] | ✧ PE17/99 |