UG

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UG is a Primitive Quendian root signifying "dislike".[1] Patrick H. Wynne has suggested that the root is "probably related" to UK.[2] Appearing in a late manuscript concerned with negation,[3] it has been suggested that the root could be related to the early negative stem UGU (yielding the Quenya derivative ūmea "evil").[1][4][5]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 J.R.R. Tolkien, "'Words of Joy': Five Catholic Prayers in Quenya — Part One" (edited by Patrick H. Wynne, Arden R. Smith, and Carl F. Hostetter), in Vinyar Tengwar, Number 43, January 2002, p. 24
  2. 2.0 2.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, "Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals and Related Writings — Part Two" (edited by Patrick H. Wynne), in Vinyar Tengwar, Number 48, December 2005, p. 32 (note 15, "Editor's Notes")
  3. Bill Welden, "Negation in Quenya", in Vinyar Tengwar, Number 42, July 2001, p. 33
  4. J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, Part Three: "The Etymologies", p. 396
  5. J.R.R. Tolkien, "Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies — Part Two" (edited by Carl F. Hostetter and Patrick H. Wynne), in Vinyar Tengwar, Number 46, July 2004, p. 20