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**Old Noldorin ''ragme''
**Old Noldorin ''ragme''
***Noldorin ''rhaew''<ref name=LR/>
***Noldorin ''rhaew''<ref name=LR/>
==Possible source==
The [[Wikipedia:Proto-Balto-Slavic language|Proto-Balto-Slavic]] word for 'arm/hand' [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/r%C3%A1nk%C4%81%CB%80], reflexes of which are Lithuanian ''rankà'', Russian рука, cf. also English ''wring'' and ''wrist''.
Otherwise maybe the Gothic ''rakjan'', cognate with English ''reach''.
==External links==
==External links==
*[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/elfling/message/36591 RAK and ruin] by [[David Salo]]
*[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/elfling/message/36591 RAK and ruin] by [[David Salo]]
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Revision as of 19:45, 7 July 2017

RAK is an Elvish root signifying "stretch out, reach".[1]

Derivatives

  • Primitive Quendian *ranku
    • Qenya ranko (plural ranqi; "arm")
    • Old Noldorin ranko (plural rankui)
      • Noldorin rhanc (plural rhenc, archaic plural rhengy; "arm")
  • Primitive Quendian *rakmē ("fathom")
    • Qenya rangwe
    • Old Noldorin ragme
      • Noldorin rhaew[1]

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