ᴱQ. silqelossea adj. “with hair like white flowers” (Category: Hair)
A word glossed “with hair like white flowers” from a vocabulary list in drafts of the ᴱQ. Earendel poem written towards the end of the 1920s; it was a combination of ᴱQ. silqe “hair” and ᴱQ. losse “white-flower” (PE16/100). It appeared in the nominative plural form ᴱQ. silqelosseën “with blossom-white hair” in the final version of the poem (MC/216).
References ✧ MC/216; PE16/100, 104
Glosses
Variations
Inflections
silkvelosseën | nominative plural | ✧ PE16/104 | |
silqelosseën | nominative plural | “with blossom-white hair” | ✧ MC/216 |
silqelosseën | nominative plural | “with flower white hair” | ✧ PE16/100 |
Elements
silqe | “tress of hair; (glossy) hair” | ✧ PE16/100 |
losse | “rose; (white) flower” | ✧ PE16/100 |
#-a | “adjectival suffix” | ✧ PE16/100 (#-a) |
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