A Qenya noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, cognate to G. fô “snow” (GL/35).
Early Quenya
losse
noun. rose; (white) flower
lossa
adjective. white
losselie telerinwa
the white people of the shores of Elfland
losille
noun. rose
fáwe
noun. snow
ninqe
adjective. white
niqileninqe
adjective. snow-white
niqis
noun. snow
niqissea
adjective. snowy
A word for “snowy” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, an adjectival form of ᴱQ. niqis “snow” (QL/66).
A variant of ᴱQ. losse “rose” in the Qenya Lexicon and Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa of the 1910s (QL/56; PME/56). In later writings lossë was associated with white flowers, not roses.