rúatan

proper name. Wose, (lit.) Wose-man

The fuller the Quenya name for “Wose” (UT/385), a compound of the shorter name Rú “Wose” and Atan “Man”, so more literally: “Wose-man”. Most likely it was an adaptation of its Sindarin cognate S. Drúadan.

rú

proper name. Wose

Given as the Quenya word for “Wose” (UT/385), most likely an adaptation of its Sindarin cognate S. Drû.

Druadan

noun. wose

n. wose, wild man.

drúath

noun. the people of the Drû, the Woses

drû

proper name. 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 (WPP) 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 rhaw “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.