Primitive elvish
rānā
noun. moon
Derivations
- √RAN “wander, stray, meander, go on an uncertain course, go aside from a course (commanded or self-chosen); err”
Derivatives
Element in
- ✶keu̯rānā “new-moon” ✧ VT48/07
ran
root. wander, stray, meander, go on an uncertain course, go aside from a course (commanded or self-chosen); err
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Element in
Variations
- RĂNĂ ✧ PE17/060; PE17/182
- ran- ✧ SA/ran; UT/242
This root first appeared as ᴹ√RAN “wander, stray” in The Etymologies of the 1930s with derivatives like ᴹQ. ranya-/N. rhenia- “to stray”, ᴹQ. ránen/N. rhaun “errant”, and ᴹQ. Rana/N. Rhân as names for the Moon (Ety/RAN). These Moon-names also appeared in earlier writings but without clear etymologies (LT1/192; GL/64). Such Moon names continued to appear in later writings, for example: Q. Rána “Wayward” (S/99). The root √RAN itself was mentioned quite frequently in Tolkien’s later writings with glosses like “wander, stray” (PE17/182), “wander, stray, go on uncertain course” (VT42/12) and “err, go aside from a course (commanded or self-chosen)” (PE17/78).