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Early Quenya

ossa

noun. wall and moat

A word for “wall & moat” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√OSO (QL/71). In the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa it was hosse “wall & moat” instead (PME/71).

Cognates

  • G. oss “outer wall (with moat), town wall, moat” ✧ LT2A/Belegost

Derivations

  • ᴱ√OSO “*enclosure” ✧ LT2A/Belegost; QL/071

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√OSO² > ossa[ossā] > [ossa]✧ QL/071

Variations

  • hosse ✧ PME/071
Early Quenya [LT2A/Belegost; PME/071; QL/071] Group: Eldamo. Published by

hosse

noun. wall and moat