Quettaparma Quenyallo

racta- ("k") vb. "stretch out, reach" (LT2:335; read *rahta- if the word is to be adapted to LotR-style Quenya)

*rahta- see racta-

raica ("k") adj. "crooked, bent, wrong" (RÁYAK, VT39:7), pl. raicar in LR:47 (read perhaps *raicë in LotR-style Quenya)

raima noun "net" (VT42:12)

raimë noun "network, lace" (VT42:28). – In the Etymologies as printed in LR, a word raimë "hunt, hunting" is also cited in the entry ROY¹, but this is a misreading for roimë in Tolkien's manuscript (VT46:12)

raina (1) adj. "nettled, enlaced" (VT42:11)

raina (2) adj. "smiling, gracious, sweet-faced" (VT44:35, PE17:182). Cf. raita #3.

rainë noun "peace" (VT44:34-35)

raita- 1) vb. "make network or lace" (also rëa-) (VT42:12)

raita- 2) vb. "catch in a net" (VT42:12)

raita- 3) vb. “smile”, pa.t. rëantë (PE17:182)

[raiwe noun "lace" (VT42:12)]

ráma noun "wing", pl. rámar (RAM, Nam, RGEO:66, LT2:335); Markirya has both nominative pl. rámar "wings" and instrumental pl. rámainen *"with wings" (translated "on wings" by Tolkien); rámali "wings" in MC:213 would be a partitive pl. in LotR-style Quenya. Variant rámë in the names Eärrámë, Alquarámë, q.v.

rama- vb. "to shout" (LT1:259)

rámalócë ("k") noun "winged dragon" (LOK)

rámavoitë adj. "having wings" (LT2:335, Narqelion)

ramba noun "wall" (RAM, SA, VT46:10)

rambë noun "a shout" (LT1:259)

rámen, see rá

ran (ram-) noun "noise" (LT1:259, QL:79)

Rána place-name "the Wayward, the Wanderer", a name of the moon (MR:198, MC:221, Silm); genitive Ráno in the phrase Ráno tië "the path of the Moon" (VT47:11). See also ceuran-, ránasta. According to one late source, Rána is not properly the Moon itself but is rather the "name of the spirit (Máya) that was said to abide in the Moon as its guardian" (VT42:13). The Etymologies gives Rana with a short vowel (RAN). In the pre-classical Tengwar system there presupposed, Rana was also the name of tengwa #25 (VT45:10), which letter Tolkien would later call Rómen instead.

ránasta noun "lunar month" (Rána + asta, q.v.) (VT48:11)

ranco ("k") noun "arm", stem *rancu- given the primitive form ¤ranku, hence also pl. ranqui ("q") (RAK)

randa noun "cycle, age" (100 Valian Years) (RAD, cf. LR:171: “an age, which is 100 years of the Valar”). A Valian year is equated with ten of “our” years (LR:171), making a randa the equivalent of 1,000 solar years (but possibly the word can also be used for “age” in general).

ránë noun "straying, wandering" (RAN)

ránen adj. "errant" (RAN; may be a misreading for *ránëa)

ranga (pl. rangar is attested) noun "yard, full pace". This Númenórean linar measure was "slightly longer than our yard, approximately 38 inches [= 96.5 cm]". (UT:285, 461)

rangwë noun "fathom" (RAK)

ranqui ("q") pl. of ranco (RAK)

#ranta noun "part”. Pl. rantali attested. (PE14:117)

ranya- (1) vb. "to stray" (RAN), (2) ranya noun "erratic wandering" (VT42:13), (3) ranya, also aranya, adj. "free". Another gloss was not certainly legible, but the editors suggest "uncontrolling" (VT46:10)

Rása noun "the Sea" (LT2:347; rather ëar in Tolkien's later Quenya)

rasco, see rassë

rassë, also rasco, noun "horn" (especially on living animal, but also applied to mountains) (RAS/VT46:10, PM:69)

#rasta cardinal "twelve" (isolated from yurasta "24", two times 12; cf. the stem RÁSAT "twelve" listed in the Etymologies). See yunquë. (PE14:17)

ráta- vb. “excel, surpass” (PE17:147)

rato adv. "soon" (Arct)

rau (pl. rávi) noun "lion" (LT1:260; the pl. of this "Qenya" form is valid in Tolkien's later Quenya as well, but the sg. he changed to rá, q.v.)

rauca (“k”) noun “demon” (PE17:48). Variant of rauco, q.v.

rauco ("k") noun "a powerful, hostile, and terrible creature", "very terrible creature", especially in the compound Valarauco noun "Demon of Might" (WJ:415, VT39:10, cf. SA:raukor. In the Etymologies, stem RUK, the gloss is "demon".) Longer variant arauco. The plural form Valaraucar "Balrogs" seems to contain the variant rauca.

raumo noun "(noise of a) storm" (Markirya)

raust noun "hunting, preying" (LT1:260; in LotR-style Quenya rather roimë [misreading "raime" in LR:384]. Normally, LotR-style Quenya does not permit final consonant clusters.)

rauta noun "metal" [meaning changed by Tolkien from "copper"]. Notice that in the LotR, the word for metal is given as tinco. (RAUTĀ)

rauta- vb. "to hunt" (LT1:260; in Tolkien's later Quenya rather roita-)

?ravanda noun?, a form cited by Tolkien to elucidate the Noldorin word rhofan "wilderness"; it is not clear whether ravanda is meant as a Quenya cognate or just as an etymological (Old Noldorin?) form (VT46:10)

ráva (1) adj. “free, unfettered, uncontrolled, lawless” (PE17:78), "wild, untamed" (RAB). In PE17:78, the gloss “wild” is given to the variant hráva instead.

ráva (2) noun "bank" (especially of a river) (RAMBĀ)

rávë noun "roaring noise" (Markirya)