amon uilos

place name. Hill of Ever-snow

The Sindarin name of the mountain Q. Oiolossë (S/37). The first element is amon “hill” and the second element Uilos “Ever-snow” is the cognate of its Quenya name.

Conceptual Development: The earliest form of this name was N. Amon Uilas with an a corresponding to earlier ᴹQ. Ialasse (SM/81), but it was revised to N. Amon Uilos in Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s (LR/210). This form of the name also appeared in The Etymologies (Ety/OY).

Cognates

• Q. Oiolossë “Ever (Snow) White” ✧ Let/278; SI/Oiolossë; SI/Amon Uilos; UT/055; UTI/Amon Uilos; UTI/Oiolossë; S/037; WJ/403

Elements

Word	Gloss
amon	“hill, mountain with steep sides; lump, clump, mass, hill, (isolated) mountain; lump, clump, mass; [G.] steep slope”
Uilos	“Ever-snow”

Variations

• Amon-Uilos ✧ WJ/403

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Amon Uilos (name)

amon ("steep-sided mount") + uilos ("always white")