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).
Quenya
ramba
wall
ramba
noun. wall
Cognates
- S. ram “wall” ✧ SA/ram
Derivations
- ᴹ√RAB “*wall”
Element in
- Q. Eärambar “Walls of Eä”
ramba noun "wall" (RAM, SA, VT46:10)