arauco ("k")noun "a powerful, hostile, and terrible creature; demon" (variant of rauco). Tolkien's earlier "Qenya" has araucë "demon" (WJ:415, LT1:250)
Quenya
rauco
powerful, hostile, and terrible creature
rauco
noun. demon, powerful hostile and terrible creature
Changes
rauko→ rauka ✧ PE17/048Cognates
- S. raug “demon, powerful hostile and terrible creature” ✧ PE17/048; PE17/048; SA/rauko; WJ/415
Derivations
Element in
- Q. Valarauko “Demon of Might” ✧ PE17/048; PE17/048; SA/rauko; WJ/415
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √RUK > rauka [rauka] ✧ PE17/048 √RUK > rauko [rauko] ✧ VT39/10 ✶grauk- > rauko [grauko] > [ɣrauko] > [rauko] ✧ WJ/415 ✶grauk- > arauko [grauko] > [ɣrauko] > [arauko] ✧ WJ/415 Variations
- rauka ✧ PE17/048; PE17/048
- rauko ✧ PE17/048 (
rauko); SA/rauko; VT39/10; WJ/415- arauko ✧ WJ/415
arauco
powerful, hostile, and terrible creature; demon
arauco
noun. demon
rauca
demon
rauca ("k")noun "demon" (PE17:48). Variant of rauco, q.v.
rauca
noun. demon
Element in
- ᴺQ. raucëa “demonic”
Valarauco
demon of might
Valarauco ("k") noun "Demon of Might" (here vala- assumes its basic meaning "power, might"), Sindarin balrog(WJ:415). Pl. Valaraucar (sic, not -or) "Balrogs", apparently containing rauca (q.v.) as an alternative form of rauco "demon" (SA:val-, SA:rauco). Earlier forms from the "Qenya Lexicon" are Valcaraucë, Malcaraucë (q.v.), apparently abandoned in LotR-style Quenya.
rauco ("k") noun "a powerful, hostile, and terrible creature", "very terrible creature", especially in the compound Valarauco noun "Demon of Might" _(WJ:415, VT39:10, cf. SA:raukor. In the Etymologies, stem RUK, the gloss is "demon".)_ Longer variant arauco. The plural form Valaraucar "Balrogs" seems to contain the variant rauca.