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G. goloth [ng-] n. “forest” (Category: Woods, Forest)

⚠️G. goloth [ng-], n. “forest” (Category: Woods, Forest)

A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “forest”, derived from primitive ᴱ✶ŋgua-aloþ- (GL/41). This is likely a combination of ᴱ✶ŋu̯a “together” and some elaboration of the root ᴱ√ALA² “spread”, the basis of “tree” words, so probably originally “*together spread(ing)”. In The Gnomish Grammar it had the form gôloth (GG/8) and in Gnomish Lexicon Slips the form gawlas derived from primitive ᴱ✶ŋgwa-alassa (PE13/114).

References ✧ GG/8; GL/19, 41; LT2A/Golosbrindi; PE13/114

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Inflections

gawlais plural ✧ PE13/114
i·ngoloth soft-mutation; ng-mutation ✧ GG/8

Elements

alos “forest” ✧ LT2A/Golosbrindi (†aloth)

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Phonetic Developments

ᴱ✶ŋgua-aloþ- > gwōloth > goloth [ŋgʷāloθ] > [gʷāloθ] > [gʷōloθ] > [gōloθ] ? [goloθ] ✧ GL/41
ᴱ✶gwā-alassē > gawlas [gwālassē] !!! [gawlas] ✧ PE13/114