mall ([Etym. SMAL-] malt “gold”) + loss (“snow”) Final s in loss is dropped at the end of a polysyllable [HKF].
Sindarin
mallos
noun. golden flower
Elements
Word Gloss malt “gold, gold (as metal)” loth “flower, single blossom; inflorescence, head of small flowers” Variations
- Mallos ✧ LotRI/Mallos
mallos
noun. a golden flower
mallos
noun. golden-white (flower, plant)
mallos
noun. golden flower
n. Bot. golden flower.
mallos
Mallos
mallos
flower of gold
(a species of flower growing in Lebennin) mallos (i vallos), pl. mellys (i mellys)
mallos
flower of gold
(i vallos), pl. mellys (i mellys)
alf
noun. flower
Cognates
- Q. alma “flower” ✧ PE17/153
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √GAL-AB > alf [alba] > [alva] > [alv] ✧ PE17/153
elanor
noun. a flower, a kind of enlarged pimpernel bearing golden and silver flowers
elloth
noun. (single) flower
loth
noun. flower, inflorescence, a head of small flowers
The noun is collective, a single flower being lotheg
loth
noun. flower
_n._flower, a single bloom. Q. lóte, lōs.
lotheg
noun. (single) flower
ninglor
noun. golden water-flower, gladden
niphredil
noun. a pale winter flower, snowdrop
edlothia
flower
(verb) #edlothia- (i edlothia, in edlothiar) (to blossom);
edlothia
flower
(i edlothia, in edlothiar) (to blossom);
edlothiad
flowering
(blossoming), pl. edlothiaid if there is a pl.**
gwaloth
collection of flowers
(i ’waloth) (blossom), pl. gwelyth (in gwelyth). Also goloth (i ’oloth) (blossom), pl. gelyth (i ngelyth = i ñelyth). Archaic pl. gölyth. (VT42:18). Specific flowers, see
loth
flower
loth, pl. lyth (but loth is also glossed ”blossom” and may itself function as a collective term: all the flowers of a plant. For individual flowers cf. the following:)
loth
flower
pl. lyth (but loth is also glossed ”blossom” and may itself function as a collective term: all the flowers of a plant. For individual flowers cf. the following:)
lotheg
single flower
lothod (”singulars” derived from the more collective term loth; it is unclear whether lotheg, lothod can themselves have ”plural” forms. If so it would be lethig, lethyd, for archaic löthig, löthyd.) (VT42:18, VT45:29) Another word for a single flower is elloth (pl. ellyth) (VT42:18). An alternative to loth is loss (construct los; pl. lyss), but the form loth seems to be more common (and loss also means ”fallen snow” and ”wilderness”).
Name of a “golden flower” in Middle-Earth (PE17/100), more accurately described as a “golden bell-shaped flower” (PE22/153). It is a combination of malt “gold” and a variant suffixal form of loth “flower”.