; no distinct pl. form; coll. pl. yrath). Suggested Sindarin form of ”Noldorin” iôr.
Noldorin
iôr
noun. course
iôr
noun. course
rath
noun. course, riverbed
rath
noun. street (in a city)
Sindarin
yr
course
ŷr
course
*ŷr (construct yr; no distinct pl. form; coll. pl. yrath). Suggested Sindarin form of ”Noldorin” iôr.
rath
noun. course, riverbed
rath
noun. street (in a city)
ŷr
noun. course
rath
course
rath (climb, climbing path, street, riverbed), pl. raist (idh raist) (UT:255)
rath
course
(climb, climbing path, street, riverbed), pl. raist (idh raist) (UT:255)
Quenya
ranta
noun. course
Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
Old Noldorin
yura
noun. course
Qenya
ranta
noun. course
The word ᴹQ. ranta “course” appeared in a page of verbal roots from Quenya Verbal System (QVS) written in 1948 as a derivative of ᴹ√RAT “go in a line (as a road)” (PE22/127), likely as a cognate to S. rant which Tolkien often translated as “course” or “lode” (LotR/341; RC/775). While the page of 1948 roots containing ranta was rejected, the Sindarin word rant survived, most notably as an element in Celebrant “Silver Lode”. For “lode” compare Old English “lād”, basis for Modern English “lode”, which originally meant “way, course”.
Conceptual Development: A possible precursor is ᴱQ. raume “running, course” in the Qenya Lexicon under the early root ᴱ√RAẆA having to do with running and chasing (QL/79).
Neo-Quenya: Notes from the late 1960s had S. rant “course” derived from primitive ✶rantā meaning “tracks and trails of travellers or explorers that had become habitual and could be followed by others”, though in this note Tolkien said it “was also, especially in Sindarin, applied to the courses of rivers” (NM/363). In this document the root √RAT meant “to find a way” and “applied to persons journeying in the wild; to travel in roadless land; and also to streams and rivers and their courses” (NM/363). All this seems to indicate [ᴺQ.] ranta “course” remains viable for purposes of Neo-Quenya, though unlike its Sindarin equivalent I would not use it for veins of ore.
A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “course” derived from ON. yura under the root ᴹ√YUR “run” (Ety/YUR).