Eldamo : Early Primitive Elvish : RAÞA

ᴱ√RAÞA root. “*arch, bridge”

⚠️ᴱ√RAÞA root. “*arch, bridge”: Q. yanta “bridge”; S. iant “bridge”

An unglossed root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with a single derivative: ᴱQ. ranta “arch, bridge” (QL/79). G. rantha “arch, bridge” from the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon is clearly also related (GL/65). In later writings, Tolkien revised the Elvish words for “bridge”, driving them from ᴹ√YAT or √YAN, but this root may have remanifested later as √RATH “climb”.

Reference ✧ QL/79

Derivatives

> ᴱQ. ranta¹ “arch, bridge” ✧ QL/79
- ⇒ ᴱQ. ilweran(ta) “bridge of heaven, rainbow” ✧ QL/42
  - ⇒ ᴱQ. Ilwerantelimba “[Gully of the] Rainbow Roof”
> G. rantha “arch, bridge”
- ⇒ G. duivrant “aqueduct” ✧ GL/31
- ⇒ G. ilbrant “rainbow” ✧ GL/24; GL/50; GL/65; LT1A/Ilweran
  - ⇒ G. Cris Ilbranteloth “Gully of the Rainbow Roof” ✧ GL/50; LT2A/Cris Ilbranteloth