losta-
verb. to bloom, to bloom, *blossom
losta-
to bloom
losta- vb. "to bloom" (VT42:18)
fúmë
sleep
fúmë noun "sleep" (LT1:253). Read perhaps *húmë in a LotR-compatible form of Quenya, since Tolkien later decided that fu- tended to become hu-.
lotta-
verb. bloom
losta-
verb. to bloom, blossom
A neologism for “to bloom, blossom” coined by Elaran, inspired by Q. losta- of the same meaning.
losta-
verb. to sleep
See instead: lor-.
losta-
verb. to sleep
Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
los
root. sleep
luitha-
verb. to bloom, blossom
A verb in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “bloom” and “blossom” (GL/55), probably based on the early root ᴱ√LOHO [loχo] (GL/52; QL/55).
fumu
root. sleep
A root from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “sleep” with Quenya derivatives beginning with f- such as ᴱQ. fum- “sleep” (QL/38). This root was first given as (deleted) ᴱ√HUMU, as reflected in words appearing in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon such as G. hum- “sleep, drowze” (GL/49). In the Early Qenya Grammar of the 1920s, Tolkien gave the (unglossed) Qenya verb hum-, which might be a reversion to ᴱ√HUMU. However, in later writings Tolkien generally attributed the meaning “sleep” to the root √LOR and its variants, so ᴱ√HUMU/ᴱ√FUMU was probably abandoned.
fum-
verb. to sleep
A verb for “sleep” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s derived from the early root ᴱ√FUMU of the same meaning (QL/39). An unglossed verb hum- on a page of Qenya Verb Forms from the 1910s might be another iteration of this verb (PE14/28).
lóto-
verb. to bloom
lor-
verb. to sleep, to sleep, [ᴱQ.] slumber
The verb ᴱQ. lor- “slumber” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√LORO “doze, slumber” (QL/56). The verb reappeared in a present participle form loralyar “asleep” in Koivienéni sentence which was probably composed in the late 1930s (VT27/7).
Neo-Quenya: I’d use lor- as the best available verb for “to sleep, slumber” for purposes of Neo-Quenya; see the entry on √(O)LOR for further discussion.
A verb for “to bloom” appearing in notes from the late 1960s as a derivative of √LOT(H), but in that document it was deleted (PE17/26). However losta- “to bloom” reappeared in notes on The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor from 1967-69 with the same derivation, and in that document it was not deleted (VT42/18).
Conceptual Development: The verb ᴱQ. {lōta- >>} lōto- “to bloom” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√LO’O (QL/55). Some possible inflected forms for this Early Qenya verb appeared (untranslated) in one of the initial versions of the Oilima Markirya poem (PE16/57-58).