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Middle Primitive Elvish

rak

root. stretch out, reach

The first iteration of this root was as ᴱ√RAHA “stretch forward” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives like ᴱQ. rá “arm” and ᴱQ. ráma “wing” (QL/78). It also had derivatives in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon such as G. rath “the full arm” and G. ram “wing, pinion” (GL/64-65). In The Etymologies of the 1930s, “wing” words were based on ᴹ√RAM (Ety/RAM), but “arm” words were derived from ᴹ√RAK “stretch out, reach”: ᴹQ. ranko/N. rhanc “arm” along with ᴹQ. rangwe/N. rhaew “fathom” (Ety/RAK). The relationship to earlier and later ᴱ√RAKA/✱√RAK “break”, if any, is unclear.

Derivatives

  • ᴹ✶rakmē “fathom” ✧ Ety/RAK
    • ᴹQ. rangwe “fathom” ✧ Ety/RAK
    • On. ragme “fathom” ✧ Ety/RAK
    • N. rhaew “fathom” ✧ Ety/RAK
  • ᴹ✶ranku “arm” ✧ Ety/RAK
    • ᴹQ. ranko “arm” ✧ Ety/RAK
    • On. ranko “arm” ✧ Ety/RAK
    • N. rhanc “arm” ✧ Ety/RAK; Ety/RAK
  • ᴺQ. rahta- “to stretch out, reach”
  • ᴹQ. rakka “*claw”
  • ᴺS. raeth “extent, reach; region, sphere, district, scope”
  • ᴺS. raetha- “to reach at, reach for; to reach, extend (intr.)”
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/RAK] Group: Eldamo. Published by