Eldamo : Early Quenya : ossa

ᴱQ. ossa n. “wall and moat” (Category: Wall)

⚠️ᴱQ. ossa, n. “wall and moat” (Category: Wall)

A word for “wall & moat” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√OSO² (QL/71). In the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa it was hosse “wall & moat” instead (PME/71).

References ✧ LT2A/Belegost; PME/71; QL/71

Glosses

“wall & moat” ✧ PME/71 (hosse); QL/71
“wall and moat” ✧ LT2A/Belegost

Variations

ossa ✧ LT2A/Belegost; QL/71
hosse ✧ PME/71

Cognates

G. oss “outer wall (with moat), town wall, moat” ✧ LT2A/Belegost

Derivations

< ᴱ√OSO² “*enclosure” ✧ LT2A/Belegost; QL/71

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√OSO² > ossa

[ossā] > [ossa]

✧ QL/71