uilos
noun. white flower like a star
Element in
- S. Amon Uilos “Hill of Ever-snow” ✧ UT/055
Elements
Word Gloss ui “ever” gloss “(dazzling) white, (dazzling) white, [N.] snow-white, [G.] clear white; [N.] snow”
uilos
place name. Ever-snow
Sindarin name for Mount Q. Oiolossë (PE17/26), usually appearing in the fuller name Amon Uilos. It is a combination of ui “ever” and loss “snow”.
Conceptual Development: In The Etymologies from the 1930s, this name first appeared as (rejected) N. Guilos from the root ᴹ√GEY (Ety/GEY), revised to Uiloss from the root ᴹ√EY (Ety/EY) and finally N. Uilos from the root ᴹ√OY (Ety/OY), with essentially the same derivation as its later Sindarin name.
Cognates
- Q. Oiolossë “Ever (Snow) White” ✧ PE17/026; PE17/026; RGEO/62; RGEO/66
Element in
- S. Amon Uilos “Hill of Ever-snow”
- S. Fanuilos “Bright (Angelic) Figure upon Uilos” ✧ PE17/026; PE17/026; RGEO/66
Elements
Word Gloss ui “ever” loss “snow”
uilos
'Everwhite/snowy'
topon. 'Everwhite/snowy', Mount Everwhite, a name of the Great Moutain of Aman, highest mountain in the world, the _Tániquetil _in the centre of the Pelóri. Q. Oiolosse. >> Fanuilos
uilos
noun/adjective. always white, ever white as snow
uilos
noun/adjective. a small white everlasting flower also called simbelmynë or "evermind"
uilos
noun. ever-white snow
#ui (stem of uireb “eternal”) + loss (“snow”) Final s in loss is dropped at the end of a polysyllable [HKF].
uilos
oioloss
Ë (”Ever-white”) Uilos (name of Mount Taniquetil, or its upper part)
uilos
oiolossë
(name of Mount Taniquetil, or its upper part)
uilos
always snow-white
Uilos (name of Mount Taniquetil, or Oiolossë)
uilos
always snow-white
(name of Mount Taniquetil, or Oiolossë)
fain
noun/adjective. white
fain
noun/adjective. cloud
glân
adjective. white, [bright shining] white; [N.] clear; [G.] pure, †bright; [ᴱN.] clean
Derivations
- ᴹ√GALAN “bright”
Element in
- S. Curunír ’Lân “Saruman the White” ✧ UT/390
nim
white
_adj. _white. >> Nimbrethil
nim
white
nim
adjective. white
Cognates
- Q. ninquë “white; chill, cold; pallid” ✧ SA/nim
Derivations
Element in
- S. Barad Nimras “White Horn Tower” ✧ SA/nim
- S. Ered Nimrais “White Mountains, (lit.) White-horns Mountains” ✧ SA/nim
- S. Nimbrethil “Silver-birches” ✧ PE17/019; PE17/019; SA/nim
- S. Nimloth “White Blossom, Pale Blossom” ✧ SA/nim
- S. Nimras “White Horn” ✧ PE17/168
- S. Nimrodel “Lady of the White Cave”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources At. nimbi > nim [nimbi] > [nimbe] > [nimb] > [nimm] > [nimm] > [nim] ✧ PE17/019
silivren
adjective. (white) glittering
faen
white
(radiant). No distinct pl. form.
fain
white
; no distinct pl. form.
gloss
white as snow, dazzling white
(in compounds -los), lenited ’loss; pl. glyss.
glân
white
1) glân (clear), lenited lân, pl. glain. (UT:390, VT45:13). Note: a homophone means ”hem, border”. 2) nimp (nim-) (pale); no distinct pl. form. 3) faen (radiant). No distinct pl. form. 4) fain; no distinct pl. form.
glân
white
(clear), lenited ’lân, pl. glain. (UT:390, VT45:13). Note: a homophone means ”hem, border”.
nimp
white
(nim-) (pale); no distinct pl. form.
silivren
glittering white
(lenited hilivren; pl. *silivrin**). *Verb
ui
always
ui (ever); also used as adj. ”everlasting, eternal”.
ui
always
(ever); also used as adj. ”everlasting, eternal”.
A flower in Middle-earth about which Tolkien said “like stars bloomed the white flowers of uilos, the Evermind” (UT/49). Elsewhere Evermind was the translation of the Rohirric flower name simbelmynë (LotR/507), so uilos may be its Elvish name but with a different meaning. This word also appears in Amon Uilos, the Sindarin name of Oiolossë “Ever (Snow) White” (S/37). Thus uilos seems to be a combination of ui “ever” and either loss “snow” or gloss “white”.