Early Noldorin
ailin
noun. lake
Cognates
lhuin
noun. pool
thlos
noun. shore, shore; [G.] breaker
Derivations
- ᴱ√ÞOLO “*surf”
Element in
- En. gwaithlos “*sea-shore” ✧ PE13/146
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A noun glossed “shore” in Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s (PE13/154). In the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s there was a similar word G. thloss “breaker” derived from ᴱ√thol-, as well as an earlier (rejected?) word G. thloth “breakers, waves, surf” (GL/73). The Early Noldorin word was thus likely of similar derivation. The Gnomish word G. thloss was “confused with flass, floss” (GL/35, 73), but there are no signs of this in Early Noldorin.