Gwingloth

noun. Gwingloth

foam-flower; gwing (“spindrift, flying spray”) + loth (“flower”) S form of Q Wingelot, Wingelóte; in PM:370, the first element is said to come from Bëorian wing.

gwingloth

proper name. Foam-flower

Sindarin name of Q. Vingilótë (PM/370), a combination of gwing “foam” and loth “flower” (Ety/LOT(H), WIG).

Conceptual Development: In Gnomish Lexicon from the 1910s, the elements of this name were inverted as Lothwing(a) “Foam Flower” (GL/46, 55) and also appeared as Gwingalos (GL/46). In The Etymologies from the 1930s, it became N. Gwingloth, and this is the source of the derivation given above (Ety/LOT(H), WIG; EtyAC/LOT(H)).

Cognates

• Q. Vingilótë “Foam-flower” ✧ PM/370; PMI/Vingilot

Elements

Word	Gloss
gwing	“foam, spindrift, foam, spindrift, [N.] flying spray; [G.] wave-crest”
loth	“flower, single blossom; inflorescence, head of small flowers”