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