Q. hröa n. “body, bodily form, flesh; physical matter” (Category: 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 hrondo for “body”, 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
Variations
Inflections
| hröar | plural | ✧ MR/219; MR/304; MR/470; NM/14 | |
| hröar | plural | “bodies” | ✧ NM/83 |
Element In
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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)
References ✧ MR/209, 216, 218-219, 229, 231, 233, 470-471; NM/237; PE17/124, 183
Glosses
Variations
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Inflections
| hrondor | plural | ✧ MR/219 |
| hrondor | plural | ✧ MR/233; MR/471 |
Element In
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Phonetic Developments
| √s-ron > hrondo | [srondo] > [r̥ondo] | ✧ MR/231 |
| √SRON > hrondo | [srondo] > [r̥ondo] | ✧ PE17/183 |