lossë

blossom

lossë (2) noun "blossom" ("usually, owing to association with olosse snow, only used of white blossom") (LOT(H) )

lúth

noun. blossom

_ n. Bot. _blossom, inflorescence. >> Lúthien

lûth

noun. blossom, inflorescence, blossom, inflorescence [on a single plant]

A word for “blossom, inflorescence” in notes on flowers from the same bundle containing Definitive Linguistic Notes (DLN) written in 1959, cognate to Q. lós of similar meaning and serving as the basis for the name S. Lúthien “Daughter of Flowers” (PE17/161). Another word of similar meaning is S. goloth; I think lûth may specifically refer to blooms on a single plant, whereas goloth to any collection of flowers.

Cognates

• Q. lós “inflorescence, mass of flowers” ✧ PE17/161

Derivations

• ✶loth “inflorescence” ✧ PE17/160
  • √LOT(H) “flower” ✧ PE17/160

Element in

• S. Lúthien “Daughter of Flowers” ✧ PE17/015; PE17/161

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶loth > lúth	[lōtʰo] > [lōθo] > [lūθo] > [lūθ]	✧ PE17/160

Variations

• lúth ✧ PE17/015; PE17/161

edlothia-

verb. to blossom, flower

The sentence from WR/293 is hardly legible and is not translated, but this word is however a plausible form

glawar

blossom

n. (golden) blossom. Q. loar, lávar.

loth

blossom

loth (see

loth

blossom

(see

goloth

flower

(i ’oloth) (collection of flowers), pl. gelyth (i ngelyth = i ñelyth). Archaic pl. gölyth. Also in the form gwaloth (i ’waloth), pl. gwelyth (in gwelyth). Also goloth.

edlothia

blossom

(verb) #edlothia- (i edlothia, in edlothiar) (flower);

edlothia

blossom

(i edlothia, in edlothiar) (flower);

edlothiad

blossoming

(flowering), pl. edlothiaid if there is a pl.

gwaloth

noun. blossom, collection of flowers

This form replaced deleted goloth in the manuscript of The Etymologies, see VT/45:29. The deleted form is however also later attested in VT/42:18