hrávë

noun. flesh

A word for “flesh” appearing in documents from 1959, derived from primitive ✶srāwe based on the root √SRAW (MR/349-350).

Conceptual Development: In the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, Tolkien had ᴱQ. hara or haranda “flesh-meat” (QL/39), also mentioned as hara(nda) “fleshmeat” in the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/39). These early forms might have been a precursor to later hrávë. Another potential precursor is ᴱQ. sarko (sarku-) “flesh, living flesh, body” from the early root ᴱ√SṚKṚ “fat” (QL/86).

Cognates

• S. rhaw “flesh, body” ✧ MR/471; MR/350; MR/470

Derivations

• ✶srāwe “*flesh” ✧ MR/350
  • √SRAW “body, flesh”

Element in

• ᴺQ. hrávëa “fleshly, carnal”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶srāwe > hrávë	[srāwe] > [r̥āwe] > [r̥āβe] > [r̥āve]	✧ MR/350

hrávë

flesh

hrávë noun "flesh" (MR:349)

sarco

flesh

sarco ("k") noun "flesh" (LT2:347; Tolkien's later Quenya has hrávë)