Early Quenya
ossa
noun. wall and moat
Cognates
- G. oss “outer wall (with moat), town wall, moat” ✧ LT2A/Belegost
Derivations
- ᴱ√OSO “*enclosure” ✧ LT2A/Belegost; QL/071
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√OSO² > ossa [ossā] > [ossa] ✧ QL/071 Variations
- hosse ✧ PME/071
hosse
noun. wall and moat
A word for “wall & moat” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√OSO (QL/71). In the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa it was hosse “wall & moat” instead (PME/71).