Eldamo : Gnomish : laith¹

G. laith¹ n. “time, the course of time; (properly) lapse” (Category: Time (other))

⚠️G. laith¹, n. “time, the course of time; (properly) lapse” (Category: Time (other)): ᴺS. ^lû “time, occasion”

A word appearing in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s as {laitha >>} laith “time, the course of time” and more properly “lapse” (GL/52), probably based on an early root ᴱ√lith- (GL/52, 54).

References ✧ GL/45, 52-53

Glosses

“time, the course of time; (properly) lapse” ✧ GL/52

Variations

laith ✧ GL/52; GL/45 (#laith); GL/53 (laith)
laitha ✧ GL/52

Changes

laitha >> laith “time, the course of time; (properly) lapse” ✧ GL/52

Inflections

laithin

plural

✧ GL/53

Element In

G. gî(laith) “once, in past”
G. gwinlaith “womanhood (time)” ✧ GL/45
G. laithra “dead and gone, over, former, of yore, forgotten” ✧ GL/52
G. u laudin laithin hastath unweg “*floods and times do not wait for anyone” ✧ GL/53
G. u laud u laith hasta unweg “*neither flood nor time waits for anyone” ✧ GL/53

Derivations

< ᴱ√LIÞI “*flow of time”