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Q. lossë¹ n. and adj. “snow, fallen snow; snow-white, snowy” (Category: Snow)

Q. lossë¹, n. and adj. “snow, fallen snow; snow-white, snowy” (Category: Snow)
ᴱQ. fáwë “snow”
ᴱQ. is “light snow”
ᴱQ. niquilis “fine snow”

The general Quenya word for “snow” derived from the root √(G)LOS (PE17/26; VT42/18), more specifically “fallen snow” (RGEO/61), as opposed to a “snow fall” or “*falling snow” which is hrissë (PE17/168). At various points Tolkien said this word could also be used as an adjective “snowy, snow-white” (RGEO/61; PE17/161), but I would do so only in poetry or in compounds. For more ordinary speech, I would use the adjective form lossëa for clarity (PE17/71, 161; VT42/18). Strictly speaking, the noun and adjective forms of lossë have distinct primitive origins: ✶lossē “snow” vs. ✶lossĭ “snowy, snow-white” (PE17/161), so the stem form of the adjective would be lossi-.

Conceptual Development: In The Etymologies of the 1930s there was a word ᴹQ. olosse “snow, fallen snow” derived from the root ᴹ√GOLOS; Tolkien modified the entry to mark this form as poetic (†) and gave it a variant olos (Ety/GOLÓS).

References ✧ PE16/96; PE17/26, 161; RGEO/61; SA/los; VT42/18

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LŎS > losse [losse] ✧ PE17/26
lossē > losse [lossē] > [losse] ✧ PE17/161
lossĭ > losse [lossi] > [losse] ✧ PE17/161
los > losse [losse] ✧ RGEO/61
los > lossë [losse] ✧ SA/los
(G)LOS > lossë [glosse] > [ɣlosse] > [losse] ✧ VT42/18

ᴹQ. †olos(se) n. “snow, fallen snow” (Category: Snow)

See Q. lossë¹ for discussion.

References ✧ Ety/GOLÓS, LOT(H)

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ᴹ√GOLÓS > olosse [golosse] > [ɣolosse] > [olosse] ✧ Ety/GOLÓS
ᴹ√GOLÓS > †olos/olosse [golosse] > [ɣolosse] > [olosse] ✧ Ety/GOLÓS
ᴹ√GOLÓS > olosse [golosse] > [ɣolosse] > [olosse] ✧ Ety/LOT(H)