Given as the Quenya word for “Wose” (UT/385), most likely an adaptation of its Sindarin cognate S. Drû.
Quenya
Rú
drûg
rú
proper name. Wose
Cognates
Element in
- Q. Rúatan “Wose, (lit.) Wose-man” ✧ UT/385
rau
lion
rau (pl. rávi) noun "lion" (LT1:260; the pl. of this "Qenya" form is valid in Tolkien's later Quenya as well, but the sg. he changed to rá, q.v.)
rauro
noun. lion
lion
rauro
noun. lion
The common Quenya word for “lion” (more literally “roarer”) appearing in the Outline of Phonology (OP2) from the 1950s, as opposed to archaic Q. †rá (PE19/99, 104); see that entry for further discussion of its conceptual development.
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶rāw > raurō [rauro] ✧ PE19/099 ✶rau̯rō > rauro [raurō] > [rauro] ✧ PE19/104 Variations
- raurō ✧ PE19/099
rá
lion
rá (2) noun "lion", stem #ráv- as in the pl. rávi (RAW). Compare rau.
rá
noun. lion
An archaic word for “lion” mentioned in the Outline of Phonology (OP2) from the 1950s, versus more common Q. rauro (PE19/99, 104).
Conceptual Development: This word has a lengthy history in Tolkien’s conception of Elvish, dating all the way back to ᴱQ. rau “lion” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, a derivative of the early root ᴱ√RAVA (QL/79). In the Declension of Nouns from the early 1930s, Tolkien had rú “lion” (PE21/40). It appeared in The Etymologies from later in the 1930s as ᴹQ. rá “lion” derived from primitive ᴹ✶rāu [rāw] under the root ᴹ√RAW, with plural form rávi (Ety/RAW).
In the Outline of Phonetic Development (OP1) from this period Tolkien had (unglossed) rāva < rāwa (PE19/62), but in Notes for Qenya Declensions from the 1940s Tolkien had (unglossed) rāu < rắwă (PE21/69). The last clear mention in currently published materials is in the Outline of Phonology (OP2) from the 1950s, as discussed above.
Cognates
- ᴺS. raw “lion”
Derivations
Element in
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶rāw > rá [rāw] > [rā] ✧ PE19/099 ✶rāw > rá [rāw] > [rā] ✧ PE19/104 Variations
- rá ✧ PE19/099 (rá); PE19/104
rá†
noun. lion
lion
farnë
dwelling
#farnë (2) noun "dwelling", in orofarnë (as translated in Letters:224, but in other notes of Tolkiens the word was interpreted "any growing thing or plant", PE17:83)
marda
dwelling
marda noun "dwelling" (PE17:107)
voronwë
steadfastness, loyalty, faithfulness
voronwë noun "steadfastness, loyalty, faithfulness" (CO), also as masc. name Voronwë "the Faithful" (PM:340, BORÓN, LT1:250)
Rú noun "Drûg", Rúatan pl. Rúatani "Drúedain" (UT:385)