S. #râd n. “path, pass” (Category: Path)
G. rada “track, path, way” appeared in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s under a root ᴱ√rad· [RATA] (GL/64). This became N. râd “path, track” in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√RAT “walk”, where it was an element in the words N. ostrad “street [= city-path]” and N. athrad “crossing, ford [= cross-path]” (Ety/RAT).
S. athrad “ford, crossing” survived in Tolkien’s later writings, but may have been reconceived as the gerund of the verb athra- “to cross” (PE17/14). However, the word imrad appeared in notes from the late 1960s with the gloss “a path or pass between mountains, hills or trackless forest [= between-path]” (VT47/14), indicating the ongoing validity of S. râd “path”.
Reference ✧ VT47/14 ✧ #rad “path or pass”
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N. râd n. “path, track” (Category: Path)
Reference ✧ Ety/RAT ✧ “path, track”
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| ᴹ✶ratā > râd | [ratā] > [rata] > [rat] > [rad] > [rād] | ✧ Ety/RAT |