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Q. ráma n. “wing” (Category: Wing)

Q. ráma, n. “wing; ⚠️[ᴱQ.] arm” (Category: Wing)
ᴺQ. !ramna “wing (horn)”
ᴱQ. #ala² “wing”
ᴱQ. vassë “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; 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)

See Q. ráma for discussion.

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)

See Q. ráma for discussion.

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