The form rhaes in the Etymologies is a misreading according to VT/46:10
Noldorin
tarag
noun. horn; steep mountain peak
Cognates
- ᴹQ. tarka “horn [of animals]” ✧ Ety/TARÁK
Derivations
- ᴹ√TARAK “horn (of animals)” ✧ Ety/TARÁK
Element in
- N. Taragaer “Ruddyhorn” ✧ Ety/TARÁK
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√TARÁK > tarag [taraka] > [tarak] > [tarag] ✧ Ety/TARÁK
tarag
noun. horn
tarag
noun. steep mountain peak
rhasg
noun. horn
Derivations
- ᴹ√RAS “stick up (intr.)” ✧ Ety/RAS
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√RAS > rhasg [raske] > [rask] > [r̥ask] > [r̥asg] ✧ Ety/RAS
rhas
noun. horn (especially on living animal, but also applied to mountains)
rhasg
noun. horn (especially on living animal, but also applied to mountains)
rhom
noun. horn, trumpet
tild
noun. horn, point
till
noun. horn, point
till
noun. horn
Cognates
- ᴹQ. tilde “spike, horn” ✧ Ety/TIL
Derivations
- ᴹ√TIL “point, horn” ✧ Ety/TIL
Element in
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√TIL > tild > till [tilde] > [tilðe] > [tilð] > [till] ✧ Ety/TIL
A noun for “horn” in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from the root ᴹ√TARAK “horn (of animals)” (Ety/TARÁK). In The Etymologies as published in The Lost Road, Christopher Tolkien wrote that it was also used for “steep mountain pass” (LR/391), but Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne indicated that J.R.R. Tolkien’s actual words were “steep mountain peak” in their Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies (VT46/17). This word appeared in the name N. Taragaer “Ruddyhorn”, a precursor to Caradhras in Lord of the Rings drafts of the 1940s (RS/419, 433).
Conceptual Development: A similar word G. târ “a horn” appeared in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/69), equivalent to ᴱQ. taru “horn” from the contemporaneous Qenya Lexicon (QL/89).