Eldamo : Early Primitive Elvish : OLO¹

ᴱ√OLO¹ root. “tip”

⚠️ᴱ√OLO¹ root. “tip”: √TIL “point, horn”

A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “tip”, with derivatives like ᴱQ. óleme “elbow” and ᴱQ. ole “three” (QL/69). It seems to have served as the basis for ᴱ√LOHO, an early root for various flower words (QL/55). There are no signs that ᴱ√OLO was used for “tip” in Tolkien’s later writings (except perhaps in √OLOB “branch”), and ᴱ√LOHO evolved into √LOT(H) “flower”.

References ✧ LT1A/Lindelos; QL/55, 69

Glosses

“tip” ✧ LT1A/Lindelos; QL/69

Derivatives

⇒ ᴱ√LOHO “*flower” ✧ LT1A/Lindelos; LT1A/Lindelos; QL/55; QL/55
- > ᴱQ. lokta- “to sprout, bud, put forth leaves or flowers” ✧ LT1A/Lindelos; QL/55
- > ᴱQ. lokte “blossom (of flowers), (flower) cluster, bunch” ✧ LT1A/Lindelos; QL/55
  - ⇒ 4 compounds
- > ᴱQ. lóte “flower, bloom, blossom” ✧ LT1A/Lindelos; QL/55
  - ⇒ 12 compounds
- > ᴱQ. lóto- “to bloom” ✧ QL/55
  - ⇒ ᴱQ. lotóre “blooming, flowering, best time, flower” ✧ QL/55
    - ⇒ ᴱQ. lotórea “flourishing” ✧ QL/55
- > G. lost “blossom, bloom”
- > G. -loth “-grown”
  - ⇒ G. liscaloth “reedy, reed grown” ✧ GL/54
- > G. lûda- “to bloom, grow”
- > G. luis “florescence, blooming”
- > G. luitha- “to bloom, blossom”
> ᴱ✶oldō “cliff, seaward precipice”
- > G. ol “cliff, seaward precipice” ✧ GL/62
  - ⇒ G. Angol “Ironcliffs” ✧ LT1A/Eriol
> ᴱQ. ole¹ “three” ✧ LT1A/Lindelos; QL/69
- ⇒ ᴱQ. olwen “thirty six” ✧ QL/69
> ᴱQ. óleme “elbow” ✧ LT1A/Lindelos; QL/69
> ᴱQ. olet “forearm” ✧ QL/69
> ᴱQ. ollo “cliff, seaward precipice”
- ⇒ ᴱQ. Eriollo “Ironcliffs” ✧ LT1A/Eriol
> ᴱQ. olme(t) “nine” ✧ LT1A/Lindelos; QL/69