Gnomish
glôs
noun. flower, best of anything; blooming time, acme, floruit
Derivations
- ᴱ√LASA “*leaf”
lôs
noun. flower
Cognates
- Eq. losse “rose; (white) flower” ✧ LT2A/Lôs; PE15/28
Derivations
- ᴱ√LASA “*leaf”
Element in
- G. Lothwing(a) “Foam Flower” ✧ GL/55; LT2A/Lôs
- G. Gar Lossion “Place of Flowers” ✧ LT1A/Gar Lossion
- G. Los’lóriol “Golden Flower” ✧ LT2A/Lôs
- G. Lothengriol “Lily of the Valley, Flower of the Plain” ✧ GL/55; LT2A/Lôs; PE15/28
- G. lothli “floret”
- G. Lothlim “People of the Flower” ✧ PE15/28
- G. hum(i)los “(red) poppy”
- G. Minethlos “Argent Isle” ✧ LT1A/Minethlos
- G. Nost-na-Lothion “Birth of Flowers” ✧ LT2A/Duilin
- G. Thlim Losglóriol “*Folk of the Golden Flower” ✧ PE13/104
- G. tuthlos “a teazle”
Variations
- Lôs ✧ LT2A/Lôs; PE15/28
- los ✧ PE13/104
A word in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s that archaically meant the same as G. lôs “flower”, but came to also have the meaning “best of anything” and from this the sense “blooming time, acme [the point at which something is best], floruit [the time in which a person flourished]” (GL/40).