Eldamo : Early Primitive Elvish : RAPA

ᴱ√RAPA root. “drag, pull”

⚠️ᴱ√RAPA root. “drag, pull”: ^ᴺ√(D)RAP “toil”; √LUK “haul, drag, *pull; [ᴹ√] magic, enchantment”

A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with a series of glosses “handle hastily, snatch, grab” >> “tear” >> “drag, pull” but no derivatives (QL/79). The similar form G. drab “labour, toil, irksome work” and other derived words from the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon might be related (GL/30), or could represent a distinct root *ᴱ√DRAP “labour, toil”. ᴱN. drauth “labour” and draust “work” from the Early Noldorin Word-lists from the 1920s seem to be the last published iteration of these forms (PE13/142, 156). The original QL gloss “handle hastily, snatch, grab” might have reemerged in ᴹ√RAPH “snatch” from the 1940s; see the entry √RAPH for further details.

Neo-Eldarin: For purposes of Neo-Eldarin, I think it is worth positing a Neo-Root ᴺ√(D)RAP “toil” to salvage Gnomish drab- words.

References ✧ QL/79

Glosses

“drag, pull” ✧ QL/79
“handle hastily, snatch, grab” ✧ QL/79 (RAPA)
“tear” ✧ QL/79 (RAPA)

√RAPH “seize, grab” cf. deleted glosses of RAPA “drag, pull”

Changes

RAPA “tear” >> RAPA “drag, pull” ✧ QL/79
RAPA “handle hastily, snatch, grab” >> RAPA “tear” ✧ QL/79

Derivatives

> ᴱN. drauth “labour”
- ⇒ ᴱN. o(r)dhraust “without work, workless” ✧ PE13/156
> G. drab “labour, toil, irksome work”
> G. drab- “to labour, work; (impersonal) to irk, annoy”
- ⇒ G. drabri “labouring” ✧ GL/30
> G. drauth “weary, toilworn, tired”
- ⇒ G. drautha- “to weary, tire out” ✧ GL/30
  - ⇒ G. drauthiol “arduous, labourious” ✧ GL/30
- ⇒ G. #Drauthodavros “Weary Forest” ✧ LT2A/Dhrauthodavros
- ⇒ G. drauthos “toil, weariness from labour” ✧ GL/30
> ᴺQ. !rapa- “to snatch”