gwath (“shade, shadow, dim light”) + lô (“shallow lake, fenland”)
Sindarin
gwathló
place name. Greyflood
Cognates
- Ad. Agathurush “Greyflood” ✧ UT/263; UTI/Agathurush
Elements
Word Gloss gwath “shadow, dim light, shadow, dim light, [N.] shade” l(h)ô “flood, fenland, flood, fenland; [G.] pool, lake” Variations
- Gwath-lō ✧ PE17/136 (Gwath-lō); VT48/27 (Gwath-lō)
- Gwathlo ✧ PE17/136 (Gwathlo); VT42/09 (Gwathlo); VT48/27 (Gwathlo); VT48/28
- gwathlo ✧ PE17/137
Gwathló
noun. grey flood
The Sindarin name of the river “Greyflood” translated on the map of The Lord of the Rings (LotR/1082). This name is a combination of gwath “shadow” and l(h)ô “flood” (UT/263).
Conceptual Development: This name first appeared as N. Gwathlo with a short o on the draft maps of the Lord of the Rings from the 1940s (TI/304, 312).