udalraph

masculine name. Stirrupless

A sobriquet of Borondir translated “Stirrupless” (UT/313), apparently a combination of the negative prefix ú- and otherwise unattested talraph “stirrup”.

talraph

stirrup

(literally perhaps ”foot-rope”) (i dalraph, o thalraph), pl. telraiph (i thelraiph). Attested (in lenited form) in the word udalraph ”stirrupless”.

raph

strap

(rope), pl. raiph (idh raiph), coll. pl. rafath. Isolated from udalraph ”stirrupless”, literally perhaps ”without foot-strap” (u + tal/dal + raph)

ú

without

u- (e.g. udalraph ”without stirrups; stirrupless”, uluithiad ✱”without quenching” (SD:62) = ”unquenchable”). The prefix ar- has a similiar meaning, as in: