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Gnomish

rôs

place name. the Sea

Cognates

  • Eq. Rása “The Sea” ✧ GL/65; LT2A/Rôs

Variations

  • Rôs¹ ✧ GL/65
Gnomish [GL/65; LT2A/Rôs; LT2I/Rôs] Group: Eldamo. Published by

rôs

noun. endurance, meekness, patience, gentleness

Derivations

rôs

noun. embrace

rôn

noun. embrace, clasp

Derivations

  • ᴱ√RAHA “stretch forward”

Element in

  • G. Rôs “the Sea” ✧ GL/66

Variations

  • rôn ✧ GL/66
  • rôs ✧ GL/66
Gnomish [GL/65; GL/66] Group: Eldamo. Published by

ô

noun. the sea

A word for “the sea” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, derived from primitive ᴱ✶ou̯a and probably based on the early root ᴱ√’O’O (GL/61; QL/70).

Cognates

  • Eq. ua “the sea” ✧ GL/61
  • Eq. Ô “The Sea, Ocean”

Derivations

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ✶ou̯a > ô[oua] > [ōa] > [ō]✧ GL/61

rôtha-

noun. embrace

Derivations

  • ᴱ√RAHA “stretch forward”

Variations

  • rôtha ✧ GL/65; GL/66
Gnomish [GL/65; GL/66] Group: Eldamo. Published by

osp(a)

noun. foam

A noun “foam” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s with variants osp and ospa (GL/63), probably derived from the root ᴱ√Palas (QL/72).

Derivations

  • ᴱ√PALAS “*foam, splash”

Element in

  • G. ospa- “to seethe, foam, spout” ✧ GL/63
  • G. ospoth “froth” ✧ GL/63

Variations

  • osp ✧ GL/63
  • ospa ✧ GL/63