Gnomish
rausta-
verb. to hunt, chase, pursue (only in actual sense of following game)
Cognates
- Eq. rauta- “to chase, hunt, pursue; to extirpate, exterminate; to steal” ✧ LT1A/Meássë
Variations
- rausta ✧ LT1A/Meássë
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A word appearing as G. rausta- the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s with the gloss “to hunt, chase, pursue (only in actual sense of following game)”, a verb form of G. raust “hunt, chase” (GL/65). Tolkien also had G. rautha- “hunt, chase, pursue” on the same page.
Neo-Sindarin: For purposes of Neo-Sindarin, I would adapt these verbs as ᴺS. ruida- “to pursue, chase” based on the later root ᴹ√ROY “chase” and cognate to ᴹQ. roita- of similar meaning, but removing the sense “hunt” and its connection to game animals to make it more distinct from [N.] fara- “to hunt”. I’ve seen this Sindarin neologism proposed in several places, but I’m not sure who first coined it.