rhaw
noun/adjective. wild; wild beast, wild, [N.] untamed; [S.] wild beast
rhaw
noun. flesh, body
A Sindarin word appearing in documents from 1959, a melding of primitive ✶srawā “body” and ✶srāwe “flesh”, both based on the root √SRAW (MR/349-350). It reappeared in notes from 1968 with just the gloss “flesh” as a derivative for primitive srā (VT47/12).
Neo-Sindarin: For purposes of Neo-Sindarin, I would only use rhaw for “flesh” (of a living body), and would retain the 1957 word S. rhond for “body”; see that entry for discussion.
rhaw
adjective. wild
adj. wild. Q. hráva. Tolkien wrote this entry as "rhaw [f]" (PE17:78).
rhaw
noun. flesh, body
raw
noun. bank (especially of a river)
raw
noun. lion
rhaw
body
rhaw (?i thraw or ?i raw the lenition product of rh is uncertain) (flesh), pl. rhoe (?idh roe). Note: a homophone means ”wild, untamed”. (MR:350).
rhaw
flesh
rhaw (?i thraw or ?i raw the lenition product of rh is uncertain) (body), pl. rhoe (?idh roe). Note: a homophone means ”wild, untamed”. (MR:350)
rhaw
untamed
rhaw (wild). Lenited ?thraw or ?raw (the lenition product of rh is uncertain), pl. rhoe. (VT46:10) Note: a homophone means ”flesh, body”.
rhaw
wild
- rhaw (untamed). Lenited ?thraw or ?raw (the lenition product of rh is uncertain), pl. rhoe. (VT46:10) Note: a homophone means ”flesh, body”, 2) braig (fierce), lenited vraig. No distinct pl. form. (VT45:34), 3) lothren (waste), pl. lethrin for archaic löthrin (VT45:29)
rhaw
body
(?i thraw or ?i raw – *the lenition product of rh is uncertain) (flesh), pl. rhoe (?idh roe). Note: a homophone means ”wild, untamed”. (MR:350)*.
rhaw
flesh
(?i thraw or ?i raw – *the lenition product of rh is uncertain) (body), pl. rhoe (?idh roe). Note: a homophone means ”wild, untamed”. (MR:350)*
rhaw
untamed
(wild). Lenited ?thraw or ?raw (the lenition product of rh is uncertain), pl. rhoe. (VT46:10) Note: a homophone means ”flesh, body”.
rhaw
wild
(untamed). Lenited ?thraw or ?raw (the lenition product of rh is uncertain), pl. rhoe. (VT46:10) Note: a homophone means ”flesh, body”
raw
lion
*raw (pl. roe, idh roe). Suggested Sindarin form of ”Noldorin” rhaw, pl rhui. Homophones mean ”bank” (of river) and also ”rush, roaring noise”.
raw
lion
(pl. roe, idh roe). Suggested Sindarin form of ”Noldorin” rhaw, pl rhui. Homophones mean ”bank” (of river) and also ”rush, roaring noise”.
raw
bank
(esp. river-bank) raw (pl. roe, idh roe), coll. pl. ?rawath or ?roath. Note: homophones mean ”lion” and also ”rush, roaring noise”.
raw
noun. bank (especially of a river)
raw
noun. lion
raw
bank
(pl. roe, idh roe), coll. pl. ?rawath or ?roath. Note: homophones mean ”lion” and also ”rush, roaring noise”.
rhond
noun. body
A Sindarin word for “body”, cognate of Q. hrondo, appearing as rhonn in Quenya Notes from 1957 (QN: PE17/183) and as rhond or rhonn in notes concerning spirit, also probably from 1957 (NM/237). In the former document, it was derived from the root √SRON, a variant of √RON “solid, tangible, firm” (PE17/183).
Neo-Sindarin: Its Quenya cognate hrondo was replaced by Q. hröa < ✶srawā in notes from 1958-59 (MR/209, 350). However, the Sindarin equivalent of hroa was rhaw, a word that also meant “flesh” along with many other (Neo) Sindarin meanings such as “wild” and “lion”. As such, I would retain rhond as “body” for purposes of Neo-Sindarin; the continued viability of the root √RON is indicated by other words like S. Grond.
rhavan
noun. wild man
rhond
noun. body
rhonn
noun. body
bellas
bodily strength
(i vellas), pl. bellais (i mellais) if there is a pl.
braig
wild
(fierce), lenited vraig. No distinct pl. form. (VT45:34)
fân
manifested body of a vala
(veil, cloud), construct fan, pl. fain.
lothren
wild
(waste), pl. lethrin for archaic löthrin (VT45:29)
This word appeared as rhaw(f) in notes from the late 1960s with Quenya cognates Q. hráva “wild” and Q. hravan “wild beast”, all derived from the root √S-RAB “wild” (PE17/78). In this document rhaw(f) served as the basis for Rhovanion “Wilderland”. In notes from 1969, rhaw (< rhawf) reappeared with the gloss “wild beast” and a peculiar plural form i·rhaw (PE23/139). Elsewhere Tolkien said words with the diphthong au became oe in the plural (PE17/25), such as noeg plural of naug “dwarf” (UT/100). The [[s|loss of final f [v] after the u-diphthong au]] is the usual Sindarin development.
Conceptual Development: N. rhaw appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from primitive ᴹ✶rāba “wild, untamed” under the root ᴹ√RAB (Ety/RAB). Christopher Tolkien glossed this word as “wilderness” in The Etymologies as published in The Lost Road (LR/382), but in their Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne indicate this gloss actually applied to N. rhofan (VT46/10), meaning the adjective likely had the same meaning as its primitive form: “wild, untamed”. In The Etymologies, the primitive *r* unvoiced to *rh* as was typical for Noldorin, and it seems in the 1960s Tolkien revised the root for this word to √S-RAB so that the Sindarin form would still begin with rh.
Neo-Sindarin: For purposes of Neo-Sindarin, I assume this word can be used as both an adjective “wild, untamed” or a noun “wild beast”, but I would assume its plural form is rhoef to be consistent with Sindarin plurals appearing elsewhere, with the final -f preserved in the plural since it no longer followed a u-diphthong.