ramba

noun. wall

A word for “wall” in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from ᴹ✶rambā under the root ᴹ√RAB (Ety/RAMBĀ; EtyAC/RAMBĀ). The root form did not appear in The Etymologies as published in The Lost Road (LR/382), but Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne noted the actual root in their Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies (VT46/10). The word ramba appeared as an element in some later names as well, such as Eärambar “Walls of Eä” in Silmarillion revisions of the 1950s (MR/63).

ramba

wall

ramba noun "wall" (RAM, SA, VT46:10)

ramma

noun. lever

A neologism for “lever” coined by Orondil and posted on 2021-03-04 in the Vinyë Lambengolmor Discord Server (VLDS), a combination of √RAS “stick up” with the instrumental suffix ✶-mā, with ancient sm becoming mm.