Quenya 

hrai-

verb. hrai-

hrai- prefix denoting difficulty (PE17:154, 185), cf. ur(u)-

hrai-

prefix. hard, *difficult

Derivations

  • √SRAG “awkward, awry; hard, (very) difficult” ✧ PE17/154

Element in

  • Q. hraicénima “scarcely visible, hard to see” ✧ PE17/154

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
√SRAG > hrai-[srai-] > [r̥ai-]✧ PE17/154

sarda

hard

sarda adj. "hard" (VT39:17); pl. sardë "hards" may be used in the same sense as sarda tengwi, q.v. (As an independent form we would rather expect a nominal pl. sardar.)

torna

hard

#torna adj. "hard", as in tornanga (q.v.), seemingly -storna after prefixes ending in a vowel, as in the comparative forms aristorna, anastorna (PE17:56; the forms are untranslated and may not necessarily be the same adjective "hard".)

torna

adjective. hard

Derivations

  • √STOR “steadfast”

Element in

  • Q. anastorna “*extremely hard” ✧ PE17/056
  • Q. tornanga “hard-iron, iron hard, iron hard; hard-iron, *steel” ✧ PE17/056

urda

hard, difficult, arduous

urda adj. "hard, difficult, arduous" (PE17:154)