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Q. hröa n. “body, bodily form, flesh; physical matter” (Category: Body)

Q. hröa, n. “body, bodily form, ⚠️flesh; physical matter” (Category: Body)
Q. hrón “matter, substance, flesh; body”
ᴱQ. sarco¹ “flesh, living flesh, body”
ᴱQ. columë “body”

A word for “body” widely used in a variety of documents from 1958-59, derived from primitive ✶srawā based on the root √SRAW (MR/350). This word and derivation was mentioned again in notes from 1968 (VT47/35). In one place Tolkien used hroa metaphorically for the “the ‘flesh’ or physical matter of Arda” (MR/399), but as noted by Christopher Tolkien, Tolkien elsewhere used {orma >>} erma for “physical matter” (MR/406 note #2).

Conceptual Development: In early 1958 versions of the documents mentioned above, Tolkien used {hrón >>} hrondo for “body” (MR/231 note #25), a term he introduced in Quenya Notes (QN) from 1957 as a derivative of √SRON (PE17/183). But in the typescript version of Laws and Customs of the Eldar from 1958, he generally struck through hrondo and replaced it with hröa (MR/209, 217), which is the form he stuck with thereafter.

References ✧ MR/209, 216, 218-219, 304, 308, 330, 350, 399, 470-471; NM/14, 83; PMI; VT41/14; VT47/35; WJ/405

Glosses

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Inflections

hröar plural   ✧ MR/219; MR/304; MR/470; NM/14
hröar plural “bodies” ✧ NM/83

Element In

Cognates

Derivations

Phonetic Developments

srawā > hröa [srawā] > [r̥awā] > [r̥oa] ✧ MR/350
srawā > hroa [srawā] > [r̥awā] > [r̥oa] ✧ VT41/14
srawa > hroa [srawa] > [r̥awā] > [r̥oa] ✧ VT47/35

Q. hrondo n. “(physical) body, corporeal form” (Category: Body)

See Q. hröa for discussion.

References ✧ MR/209, 216, 218-219, 229, 231, 233, 470-471; NM/237; PE17/124, 183

Glosses

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Inflections

hrondor plural ✧ MR/219
hrondor plural ✧ MR/233; MR/471

Element In

Cognates

Derivations

Phonetic Developments

s-ron > hrondo [srondo] > [r̥ondo] ✧ MR/231
SRON > hrondo [srondo] > [r̥ondo] ✧ PE17/183