Noldorin
faras
noun. hunting
faras
noun. hunting
Derivations
Element in
- N. Taur-na-Faroth “Forest of Hunting” ✧ Ety/SPAR; EtyAC/PHAR² (
Taur na Faras*)Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources On. (s)pharasse > faras [sɸarasse] > [ɸarasse] > [farasse] > [farass] > [faras] ✧ Ety/SPAR
fara-
verb. to hunt
farad
gerund noun. hunting
rhui
noun. hunt, hunting
rhuiw
noun. hunt, hunting
rhui(w)
noun. hunt, hunting
Cognates
- ᴹQ. roime “hunt, hunting” ✧ Ety/ROY¹
Derivations
- ᴹ√ROY “chase” ✧ Ety/ROY¹
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√ROY¹ > rhui(w) [rojme] > [roime] > [ruime] > [ruim] > [r̥uim] > [r̥uiv] > [r̥ui] ✧ Ety/ROY¹
A noun appearing as N. rhui(w) “hunt, hunting” in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from the root ᴹ√ROY “chase”, cognate to ᴹQ. roime (Ety/ROY¹). Here the initial r became voiceless rh as was usual in Noldorin, while it seems the medial m became w and then vanished.
Conceptual Development: The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had similarly formed G. raust “hunt, chase”, clearly based on the early root ᴱ√RAVA that was the bases for “hunt” words in the contemporaneous Qenya Lexicon, as suggested by Christopher Tolkien (GL/65; QL/79; LT1A/Meássë).
Neo-Sindarin: Since the unvoicing of initial liquids did not occur in Sindarin, many people adapt this word as ᴺS. rui for purposes of Neo-Sindarin, as suggested in HSD (HSD). I would extend its meaning to “hunt, hunting, ✱chase”, to make it more distinct from “hunting” words based on [N.] fara-.