roa

dog

roa noun "dog" (VT47:35). Also huo.

röa

noun. dog

A word for “dog” appearing in 1968 notes on monosyllabic primitive Elvish nouns (VT47/35). Of the primitive forms, Tolkien first gave ✶wā(w) “dog” and ✶grā “bear”, but ✶wā(w) was struck through and the gloss of ✶grā was changed to “dog”, after which Tolkien wrote Q. roa “dog” (VT47/36). He seems to have been disatisfied with this derivation, however, going on to write a number of primitive animal roots in the upper margin, including ✶yarr- “dog”.

Conceptual Development: ᴱQ. roa “a wild beast” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, derived from primitive ᴱ✶raw̯a under the early root ᴱ√RAVA or ᴱ√RAẆA (QL/79).

Neo-Quenya: Giving Tolkien’s vacillations on these 1968 forms, I’d stick to the better known ᴹQ. huo as the common word for “dog” in (Neo) Quenya, which is the word used in Helge Fauskanger’s NQNT (NQNT).

Derivations

• ✶grawa “dog” ✧ VT47/35
  • √GRAW “[unglossed], [ᴹ√] dark, swart” ✧ VT47/35

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶grawa > roa	[grawa] > [ɣrawa] > [ɣroa] > [roa]	✧ VT47/35

Variations

• roa ✧ VT47/35

hravan

wild beast

hravan noun "wild beast"; pl.Hravani "the Wild", used as a name of non-Edain Men (PE17:78, WJ:219). PE17:18 has Hrávani with a long á, glossed "Wild-men, Savages".

hravan

noun. wild beast

A word for a “wild beast” in notes from the mid-1960s, derived from the root √S-RAB “wild, in senses not tamed, domesticated” (PE17/78), hence meaning “wild animal” vs. a “tamed animal”, which would probably be Q. laman.

Cognates

• S. rhovan “wilderness; wild beast” ✧ PE17/078

Derivations

• ✶srāban “wild beast” ✧ PE17/078
  • √SRAB “wild, not tamed/domesticated” ✧ PE17/078

Element in

• Q. Hrávandil “*Wild Beast Friend”
• Q. Hravani “Wild-men, Savages”

Elements

Word	Gloss
hráva	“wild, savage, wild, savage, [ᴹQ.] untamed”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶srāban > hrăvan	[srāban] > [r̥āban] > [r̥āβan] > [r̥āvan] > [r̥avan]	✧ PE17/078

Variations

• hrăvan ✧ PE17/078

huo

dog

huo noun "dog" (KHUG, see KHUGAN; cf. hú, huan). Also roa.

hû

dog

hû (i chû, o chu, construct hu), pl. hui (i chui)

hû

dog

(i chû, o chu, construct hu), pl. hui (i chui)

raba

noun. dog

A noun translated “dog” and fully declined as an example of a Strong II noun (SD/437). It is also used as an example of a common-noun that can be altered to masculine and feminine forms rabô “male dog” and rabê “bitch” (SD/434).

grawa

noun. dog

Derivations

• √GRAW “[unglossed], [ᴹ√] dark, swart” ✧ VT47/35

Derivatives

• Q. röa “dog” ✧ VT47/35

srāban

noun. wild beast

The primitive form of S. rhovan is attested in two different forms: ✶srāban < √SRAB (PE17/78) and ✶roban < √DROB or √SROB (PE17/99). Only the first of these could be the primitive of the attested Quenya cognate hravan.

Derivations

• √SRAB “wild, not tamed/domesticated” ✧ PE17/078

Derivatives

• Q. hravan “wild beast” ✧ PE17/078
• S. rhovan “wilderness; wild beast” ✧ PE17/078

Element in

• ✶Srāban-yānā “Wilderland”

wā(w)

noun. dog

Changes

• wā(w) → grā “dog” ✧ VT47/35

yarr-

noun. dog, dog; *growl, snarl

In the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, Tolkien gave the root ᴱ√YAPA “snarl, snap, bark ill-temperedly” (QL/105). It had no derivatives in QL, but in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon the words G. gab- “bark, bay (of dogs)” and G. gôbi “a large hound” were clearly related (GL/36). There were no similar forms for many years, but then primitive ✶yarr- “dog” appeared in notes from 1968 (VT47/36). This later primitive was likely related to Q. yarra- “growl, snarl” from the Q. Markirya poem of this same period (MC/223), perhaps from a root ✱√YAR.

Derivatives

• ᴺQ. yarra “️growl, snarl”
• Q. yarra- “to growl, snarl”

hû

noun. dog

hû

noun. dog

Cognates

• ᴹQ. huo “dog” ✧ Ety/KHUGAN

Derivations

• ᴹ√KHUG “bark, bay” ✧ Ety/KHUGAN

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴹ√KHUG > hû	[kʰugo] > [xugo] > [xuɣo] > [xuɣ] > [xūɣ] > [xū] > [hū]	✧ Ety/KHUGAN