hravani

collective name. Wild-men, Savages

A term for savage humans, appearing both as Hravani (WJ/219) and Hrávani (PE17/18). The term is the plural of the noun hravan “wild beast”.

Cognates

• S. Rhevain “Wild-men, Savages” ✧ PE17/018; WJ/219; WJI/Hravani

Elements

Word	Gloss
hravan	“wild beast”

Variations

• Hrávani ✧ PE17/018

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

rú

proper name. Wose

Given as the Quenya word for “Wose” (UT/385), most likely an adaptation of its Sindarin cognate S. Drû.

Cognates

• Wos. Drughu “Wose” ✧ UT/385; UTI/Drúath; UTI/Rú
• S. Drû “Wose” ✧ UT/385; UTI/Drúath; UTI/Rú
• Wes. Rôg “Wose” ✧ UTI/Drúath

Element in

• Q. Rúatan “Wose, (lit.) Wose-man” ✧ UT/385

Rhovain

noun. 'Wild-Men

_ pl1. n. _lit. 'Wild-Men, Savages'. Q. pl1. Hrávani.

rhevain

collective name. Wild-men, Savages

A term for savage humans, appearing both as Rhevain (WJ/219) and Rhovain (PE17/18). The term is the plural of the noun rhovan “wild beast”.

Cognates

• Q. Hravani “Wild-men, Savages” ✧ PE17/018; WJ/219; WJI/Hravani

Elements

Word	Gloss
rhovan	“wilderness; wild beast”

Variations

• Rhovain ✧ PE17/018

Druadan

noun. wose

n. wose, wild man.

drû

proper name. Wose

A Sindarin word for “Wose”, a loan word from the Wose’s name for themselves: Drughu (UT/385).

Conceptual Development: In his Words, Phrases and Passages from the Lord of the Rings from the late 1950s or early 1960s, Tolkien considered making this word a native Sindarin adjective “savage, wild” derived from the root √DROB, a variant of √SROB from which rhaw “wild” was derived (PE17/99). These roots would produce the Q. cognate (h)róva instead of better established Q. (h)ráva “wild”, so I personally prefer the later derivation of Drû as a loan word from Wos. Drughu.

Cognates

• Q. hráva “wild, savage, wild, savage, [ᴹQ.] untamed” ✧ PE17/099
• Q. Rú “Wose” ✧ UT/385; UTI/Drúath; UTI/Rú

Derivations

• Wos. Drughu “Wose”
• √DROB “*wild” ✧ PE17/099

Element in

• S. Drúadan “Wose, (lit.) Wild-man” ✧ PE17/099; UT/385; UTI/Drúedain
• S. Drúnos “a family of the Drû-folk” ✧ UT/385
• S. Drúwaith “the wilderness of the Drû-folk” ✧ UT/385

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
√D)ROB > drû	[drōb] > [drōv] > [drūv] > [drū]	✧ PE17/099

Variations

• drû ✧ PE17/099

drúath

noun. the people of the Drû, the Woses

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”