rapa

root. drag, pull

A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with a series of glosses “handle hastily, snatch, grab” >> “tear” >> “drag, pull” but no derivatives (QL/79). The similar form G. drab “labour, toil, irksome work” and other derived words from the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon might be related (GL/30), or could represent a distinct root ✱ᴱ√DRAP “labour, toil”. ᴱN. drauth “labour” and draust “work” from the Early Noldorin Word-lists from the 1920s seem to be the last published iteration of these forms (PE13/142, 156). The original QL gloss “handle hastily, snatch, grab” might have reemerged in ᴹ√RAPH “snatch” from the 1940s; see the entry √RAPH for further details.

Neo-Eldarin: For purposes of Neo-Eldarin, I think it is worth positing a Neo-Root ᴺ√(D)RAP “toil” to salvage Gnomish drab- words.

Changes

• RAPA → RAPA “tear” ✧ QL/079
• RAPA → RAPA “handle hastily, snatch, grab” ✧ QL/079

Derivatives

• G. drab “labour, toil, irksome work”
• G. drab- “to labour, work; (impersonal) to irk, annoy”
• En. drauth “labour”
• G. drauth “weary, toilworn, tired”