Primitive elvish
wā(w)
noun. dog
Changes
wā(w)→ grā “dog” ✧ VT47/35
grawa
noun. dog
Derivations
- √GRAW “[unglossed], [ᴹ√] dark, swart” ✧ VT47/35
Derivatives
- Q. röa “dog” ✧ VT47/35
yarr-
noun. dog, dog; *growl, snarl
Derivatives
morokō
noun. bear
Derivations
- ᴹ√MOROK “*bear”
In the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, Tolkien gave the root ᴱ√YAPA “snarl, snap, bark ill-temperedly” (QL/105). It had no derivatives in QL, but in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon the words G. gab- “bark, bay (of dogs)” and G. gôbi “a large hound” were clearly related (GL/36). There were no similar forms for many years, but then primitive ✶yarr- “dog” appeared in notes from 1968 (VT47/36). This later primitive was likely related to Q. yarra- “growl, snarl” from the Q. Markirya poem of this same period (MC/223), perhaps from a root ✱√YAR.