lossë

blossom

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

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

lúth

noun. blossom

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

glawar

blossom

n. (golden) blossom. Q. loar, lávar.

edlothia-

verb. to flower, blossom

A neologism coined by David Salo (GS/230), a verbalized form of ed “out” and loth “flower”. I prefer ᴺS. losta- for this purpose.

Elements

Word	Gloss
ed	“out, out of, out, out of, [N.] forth”
loth	“flower, single blossom; inflorescence, head of small flowers”

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.

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.

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