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Early Quenya

haranwa

adjective. fleshly, carnal

A word appearing as ᴱQ. haranwa “fleshly, carnal” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, an adjectival form of ᴱQ. hara(nda) “flesh-meat” (QL/39).

Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would replace this word with ᴺQ. hrávëa “fleshly, carnal”, an adjectival from of Q. hrávë “flesh” from 1959 (MR/349). I would use hrávëa to mean “carnal” in the sense of “having to do with bodily existence” but without the sexual overtones of the English word. So hrávië íri “carnal desires” would mean desires resulting from the body, but not limited to sexual desires and thus including things like hunger, etc.

Early Quenya [QL/039] Group: Eldamo. Published by