rá

1 changed by Tolkien from hrá, prep. "on behalf of", followed by dative: rá men or contracted rámen "for us, on our behalf" VT43:27, 28, 33. As these examples indicate, independent dative pronouns may be but do not have to be directly suffixed to rá. Nouns would presumably not be suffixed like this, e.g. *rá Eldan "for an Elf, on behalf of an Elf". 2 noun "lion", stem \#ráv- as in the pl. rávi RAW. Compare rau. 3 noun "arm" LT2:335, there spelt râ; probably obsoleted by \# 2 and \# 1 above. In Tolkien's later Quenya, "arm" is ranco