roch

noun. horse

The usual word for “horse” in Sindarin, a derivative of ✶rokkō (Let/282, 382) and very well attested. There are indications that this word was more specifically a “swift horse” (Let/382; EtyAC/ROK), but in most cases Tolkien used it generically.

Conceptual Development: The first precursor to this word seems to be G. brog “horse” from the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/24), though at the time it had no Qenya cognates. ᴱN. brog “horse” reappeared in Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s (PE13/139), but by The Etymologies of the 1930s it had become N. roch “horse”, already with the derivation given above (Ety/ROK; EtyAC/ROK). Tolkien seems to have mainly stuck with this form thereafter.

roch

noun. steed

n. Zoo. steed. >> Rocheryn

roch

noun. horse, swift horse for riding

roch-cheruin

proper name. Steed of the Lady

Archaic form of the name Roheryn, a combination of roch “horse” and the lenited form of archaic †heruin “lady” (PE17/97-8).

Conceptual Development: In Words, Phrases and Passages from the Lord of the Rings (WPP) from the late 1950s or early 1960s, Tolkien spent some time analyzing the origin of this name. At first, he considered having the suffix -uin be derived from an archaic genitive construction based on the primitive feminine form ✶kherī (> Q. heri “lady”) + ✶ān(a), but he abandoned this idea, deciding instead that heruin developed directly from a variant primitive form ✶kherūnī (PE17/97-8).

Roch e Cheruin

noun. 'Steed of the Lady'

prop. n. 'Steed of the Lady', Aragorn's steed given him by Arwen. Pure S. form, also Rocheryn < Roch(ch)eruin, softened Gondor form Roheryn. >> Rocheruin, Rocheryn, Roheryn

Rocheruin

noun. 'Steed of the Lady'

prop. n. 'Steed of the Lady', Aragorn's steed given him by Arwen. Pure S. form, also Roch e Cheruin, softened Gondor form Roheryn. >> Roch e Cheruin, Rocheryn, Roheryn

Rocheryn

noun. 'Steed of the Lady'

prop. n. 'Steed of the Lady', Aragorn's steed given him by Arwen. Pure S. form, softened Gondor form Roheryn. >> Roch e Cheruin, Rocheruin, Roheryn

roch na-heryna

noun. 'the horse of lady'

prop. n. 'the horse of (the) lady', Aragorn's steed given him by Arwen. >> heryna, na, Rocheruin, Rocheryn, Roheryn

roch na-heryna

the horse of (the) Lady

roch heryn

Lady(’s) horse

roch

horse

(swift horse for riding) roch, pl. rych (idh rych) (Letters:282)

roch

horse

pl. rych (idh rych) (Letters:282)

Roheryn

noun. 'Steed of the Lady'

prop. n. 'Steed of the Lady', Aragorn's steed given him by Arwen. Softened Gondor form of pure S. Roch(ch)eruin > Rocheryn for Roch e Cheruin. >> Roch e Cheruin, Rocheruin, Rocheryn

lobor

horse

lobor, analogical pl. lebyr (VT45:28)

lobor

horse

analogical pl. **lebyr **(VT45:28)