Eldamo : Gnomish : glôs

G. glôs n. “flower, best of anything; blooming time, acme, floruit” (Category: Bloom)

⚠️G. glôs, n. “flower, best of anything; blooming time, acme, floruit” (Category: Bloom): S. loth “flower, single blossom; inflorescence, head of small flowers”; S. gloss “(dazzling) white, [N.] snow-white, [G.] clear white; ⚠️[N.] snow”

A word in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s that archaically meant the same as G. lôs “flower”, but came to also have the meaning “best of anything” and from this the sense “blooming time, acme [the point at which something is best], floruit [the time in which a person flourished]” (GL/40).

Reference ✧ GL/40 ✧ “flower, best of anything; blooming time, acme, floruit”

glôs “flower, best of anything; blooming time, acme, floruit” = † lôs ✧ GL/40

Derivations

< ?ᴱ√LASA “*leaf”