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S. ram n. “wall” (Category: Wall)

S. ram, n. “wall” (Category: Wall)

The Sindarin word for “wall”, an element in several names such as Andram “Long Wall” and Ramdal “Wall’s End” (S/122).

Conceptual Development: The word was N. rham “wall” in The Etymologies of the 1930s, where it was derived from ᴹ✶rambā under the root ᴹ√RAB² (Ety/RAMBĀ; EtyAC/RAMBĀ). The root form did not appear in The Etymologies as published in The Lost Road (LR/382), but Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne noted the actual root in their Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies (VT46/10). The rh in the 1930s Noldorin form was because initial r was unvoiced in Noldorin, something that was not the case in later Sindarin.

The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had G. bant “wall” appearing between G. bada- “build” and G. bad “building”, so perhaps derived from an early root *ᴱ√BATA (GL/21).

Reference ✧ SA/ram ✧ “wall”

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N. rham n. “wall” (Category: Wall)

See S. ram for discussion.

References ✧ Ety/RAMBĀ; WR/288

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#ram soft-mutation; rh-mutation “wall” ✧ WR/288

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ᴹ✶rambā > rhamb > rham [rambā] > [ramba] > [ramb] > [r̥amb] > [r̥amb] > [r̥amm] > [r̥am] ✧ Ety/RAMBĀ

G. bant n. “wall” (Category: Wall)

See S. ram for discussion.

Reference ✧ GL/21 ✧ “wall”

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