A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “sunshine, warmth; noontide” (GL/20), likely a derivative of the early root ᴱ√AWA “burn; be parched, yellow, warm” (QL/33). It also appeared as unglossed {ôth >>} auth in the Gnomish Lexicon Slips modifying this document (PE13/111).
Gnomish
ôth
noun. hole, opening
auth
noun. sunshine, warmth; noontide
A word for “hole, opening” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/63). It might be cognate to ᴱQ. apsa “hole, opening” [< ✱aꝑsā?] from the contemporaneous Qenya Lexicon under the early root ᴱ√AFA (QL/29).