The form rhaes in the Etymologies is a misreading according to VT/46:10
Noldorin
tarag
noun. horn
tarag
noun. steep mountain peak
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
rhasg
noun. horn (especially on living animal, but also applied to mountains)
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)
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).