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Gnomish

lauth

noun. a plant, herb

A word in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “a plant, herb” (GL/53), clearly based on the early root ᴱ√LAWA from the contemporaneous Qenya Lexicon with derivatives like ᴱQ. lauke “vegetable, plant (species)” (QL/52).

Cognates

  • Eq. lauke “vegetable, plant (species)”

Derivations

  • ᴱ√LAWA “*life (esp. plants)”