N. tarag n. “horn; steep mountain peak” (Category: Horn (animal))
A noun for “horn” in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from the root ᴹ√TARAK “horn (of animals)” (Ety/TARÁK). In The Etymologies as published in The Lost Road, Christopher Tolkien wrote that it was also used for “steep mountain pass” (LR/391), but Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne indicated that J.R.R. Tolkien’s actual words were “steep mountain peak” in their Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies (VT46/17). This word appeared in the name N. Taragaer “Ruddyhorn”, a precursor to Caradhras in Lord of the Rings drafts of the 1940s (RS/419, 433).
Conceptual Development: A similar word G. târ “a horn” appeared in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/69), equivalent to ᴱQ. taru “horn” from the contemporaneous Qenya Lexicon (QL/89).
References ✧ Ety/TARÁK; EtyAC/TARÁK
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| ᴹ√TARÁK > tarag | [taraka] > [tarak] > [tarag] | ✧ Ety/TARÁK |
G. târ n. “horn” (Category: Horn (animal))
References ✧ GL/68-69; LT2A/Taruithorn
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| dâr | soft-mutation; t-mutation | “horn” | ✧ GL/68 |
| thor | stop-mutation; t-mutation | “horn” | ✧ GL/68 |
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