A suffix meaning “having fingers” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√TENE “touch, feel” (QL/91), appearing as an element in ᴱQ. tapatenda “taper fingered (light fingered)”, whose initial element was ᴱQ. tapa- “taper” (QL/89). In later writings, such adjectives were usually formed with Q. lepta, as in [ᴹQ.] rakkalepta “✱claw-fingered” (SD/68).
Gnomish
alewthion
adjective. having fingers
Elements
Word Gloss a- “?” leptha “finger” -(i)on “adjectival suffix”
The word G. alepthog “fingered, having fingers” appeared in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, an adjectival form of G. leptha “finger” (GL/18). In Gnomish Lexicon Slips modifying that document, it became G. alewthion “having fingers” (PE13/109).