Early Primitive Elvish
loho
root. *flower
Derivatives
- Eq. lokta- “to sprout, bud, put forth leaves or flowers” ✧ LT1A/Lindelos; QL/055
- Eq. lóto- “to bloom” ✧ QL/055
- Eq. lóte “flower, bloom, blossom” ✧ LT1A/Lindelos; QL/055
- Eq. lokte “blossom (of flowers), (flower) cluster, bunch” ✧ LT1A/Lindelos; QL/055
- G. lost “blossom, bloom”
- G. luitha- “to bloom, blossom”
- G. luis “florescence, blooming”
- G. -loth “-grown”
- G. lûda- “to bloom, grow”
Variations
- loχo ✧ GL/52
- loto ✧ GL/52
- LO’O ✧ LT1A/Lindelos; QL/055
loyo
root. *thirst, parched
Changes
LOẎO→ LOY̯O ✧ QL/056Derivatives
Variations
- LOY̯O ✧ QL/056
- LOẎO ✧ QL/056 (
LOẎO)
An unglossed root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives mostly having to do with thirst such as ᴱQ. loima “parched, dry”, ᴱQ. loime “thirst”, and ᴱQ. loyo- “be thirsty” (QL/55). Tolkien first gave the root as LOẎO, indicating an ancient palatal [c] or [ɟ], but changed it to LOY̯O indicating ancient [j]. It also had derivatives in contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon, such as G. luib “thirsty” and G. luista- “to parch, dry up” (GL/55). In Tolkien’s later writing, the root √LOY has to do with failure and mistakes.