losse

noun. rose; (white) flower

lossa

adjective. white

ondoli losse karkane

the white rocks snarling

The fifteenth line of the Oilima Markirya poem (MC/213). The first word is the plural of ondo “rock” modified by the plural of the adjective lossa “white”, with the “bare stem” infinitive form of the verb karka- “to snarl”, as suggested by Gilson, Welden, and Hostetter (PE16/84, notes on line #10 and #11), apparently functioning as either an active-participle or a verbal object.

Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:

> ondo-li loss-e karka-ne = “✱rock-(plural) white-(plural) snarl-ing”

losille

noun. rose

A variant of ᴱQ. losse “rose” in the Qenya Lexicon and Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa of the 1910s (QL/56; PME/56). In later writings lossë was associated with white flowers, not roses.

fáwe

noun. snow

A Qenya noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, cognate to G. fô “snow” (GL/35).

ninqe

adjective. white

niqileninqe

adjective. snow-white

A word for “snow-white” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, a combination of ᴱQ. niqilis “fine snow” and ᴱQ. ninqe “white” (QL/66).

niqis

noun. snow