Q. ráma n. “wing” (Category: Wing)
The Quenya word for “wing”, derived from the root ᴹ√RAM (PE17/63; Ety/RAM).
Conceptual Development: This word dates all the way back to the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, where ᴱQ. ráma “wing” was derived from the early root ᴱ√RAHA “stretch forward” (QL/78). The word appeared regularly in Tolkien’s writings with the gloss “wing”, though at one point in the 1920s it was glossed both “arm, wing” (PE16/137), and in the English-Qenya Dictionary of the 1920s it was given as the Qenya word meaning “arm”, but this was revised to ᴱQ. ranko (PE15/79). The use of ráma for “arm” was a brief and rejected idea, and in The Etymologies of the 1930s, ᴹQ. ráma “wing” was transferred to a new root ᴹ√RAM, while ᴹQ. ranko “arm” remained under ᴹ√RAK “stretch out” (Ety/RAK, RAM).
References ✧ LotR/377; MC/222; PE17/63; PE23/142; RGEO/58
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| rámainen | instrumental plural | “on wings” | ✧ MC/222 |
| rámar | plural | “wings” | ✧ LotR/377; MC/222 |
| rámar | plural | ✧ PE17/63 | |
| rāmar | plural | “wings” | ✧ RGEO/58 |
| rā́mar | plural | “wings” | ✧ RGEO/58 |
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ᴹQ. ráma n. “wing” (Category: Wing)
References ✧ Ety/RAM; PE22/18, 22, 50
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| ᴹ✶rāmā > ráma | [rāmā] > [rāma] | ✧ Ety/RAM |
ᴱQ. ráma n. “wing; arm” (Category: Wing)
References ✧ GL/64; LT2A/Alqarámë; MC/213; PE14/45, 76; PE15/69, 79; PE16/137; PME/78; QL/78
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| rámali | plural | “wings” | ✧ MC/213 |
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| ᴱ√RAHA > rāma | [raxmā] > [raxma] > [raɣma] > [rāma] | ✧ QL/78 |