ramba

wall

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

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).

Cognates

• S. ram “wall” ✧ SA/ram

Derivations

• ᴹ√RAB “*wall”

Element in

• Q. Eärambar “Walls of Eä”

ram

noun. wall

ram

noun. wall

The Sindarin word for “wall”, an element in several names such as Andram “Long Wall” and Ramdal “Wall’s End” (S/122).

Conceptual Development: The word was N. rham “wall” in The Etymologies of the 1930s, where it was 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 rh in the 1930s Noldorin form was because initial r was unvoiced in Noldorin, something that was not the case in later Sindarin.

The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had G. bant “wall” appearing between G. bada- “build” and G. bad “building”, so perhaps derived from an early root ✱ᴱ√BATA (GL/21).

Cognates

• Q. ramba “wall” ✧ SA/ram

Derivations

• ᴹ√RAB “*wall”

Element in

• S. Andram “Long Wall” ✧ SA/ram
• S. Ramdal “Wall’s End” ✧ SA/ram
• S. rammas “great wall”
• S. Rammas Echor “Great Wall of the Outer Circle” ✧ SA/ram

ram

wall

1) ram, pl. raim (idh raim), coll. pl. rammath; 2) rammas, pl. remmais (idh remmais), coll. pl. rammassath.

ram

wall

pl. raim (idh raim), coll. pl. rammath

rammas

wall

pl. remmais (idh remmais), coll. pl. rammassath.

thangail

shield wall

(shield wall). No distinct pl. form? (UT:281)

aglonn

pass between high walls

(defile), pl. eglynn.

rhamb

noun. wall

rham

noun. wall

rham

noun. wall

Cognates

• ᴹQ. ramba “wall” ✧ Ety/RAMBĀ

Derivations

• ᴹ✶rambā “wall” ✧ Ety/RAMBĀ
  • ᴹ√RAB “*wall” ✧ EtyAC/RAMBĀ

Element in

• N. Andram “Long Wall” ✧ Ety/RAMBĀ
• N. Othram “City Wall” ✧ WR/288
• N. Rhamdal “Wall’s End”
• N. ram(m)as “*great wall”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴹ✶rambā > rhamb > rham	[rambā] > [ramba] > [ramb] > [r̥amb] > [r̥amb] > [r̥amm] > [r̥am]	✧ Ety/RAMBĀ