adv. long. Cuio i Pheriain anann 'May the Halflings live long'.
Sindarin
anfang
proper name. Longbeard
Cognates
- Q. Andafangar “Longbeards” ✧ PM/321
Elements
Word Gloss and “long” fang “beard, beard, [G.] long beard”
anann
adverb. long, for a long time
anann
adverb. long
ann
adjective. long
adj. long. Rare except in old names (e.g. Anduin). >> and
ann
adjective. long
and
adjective. long
and
adjective. long
adj. long. i·arben na megil and 'The Knight of the Long Sword'. >> ann
and
adjective. long
Cognates
- Q. anda “long, far” ✧ PE17/040; PE17/090
Derivations
Element in
- S. Anach “?Long Neck”
- S. anann “(for) long”
- S. andaith “long-mark”
- S. Andram “Long Wall” ✧ SA/an(d)
- S. Andras “Long Cape”
- S. Andrast “Long Cape”
- S. Angast “Long Cape” ✧ VT42/28
- S. Andrath “Long Climb”
- S. andreth “long-suffering, patience”
- S. Androth “*Long Cave”
- S. Anduin “Great River, (lit.) Long River” ✧ PE17/012; PE17/040; RC/765; SA/an(d)
- S. Anfalas “Langstrand, (lit.) Long Beach” ✧ SA/an(d)
- S. Anfang “Longbeard”
- S. angerthas “runic alphabetic, (lit.) long rune-rows” ✧ SA/an(d)
- ᴺS. annas “length”
- S. Ann-thennath “*Long-shorts”
- S. Cair Andros “Ship of Long Foam” ✧ SA/an(d)
- S. i arben na megil and “Knight of the Long Sword” ✧ PE17/147
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶andā > ann- [andā] > [anda] > [and] > [ann] ✧ PE17/090 Variations
- ann ✧ PE17/012; PE17/040; PE17/121
- ann- ✧ PE17/090
- an(d) ✧ SA/an(d)
- an(n)- ✧ VT42/28
anfang
longbeard
pl. Enfeng, coll. pl. Anfangrim (WJ:10, 108, 205)
anfang
longbeard
(a member of a certain tribe of Dwarves) Anfang, pl. Enfeng, coll. pl. Anfangrim (WJ:10, 108, 205)
anann
long
(adverb, = "for a long time") anann
anann
long
andaith
long mark
(no distinct pl. form). The word refers to an accent-like mark used to indicate long vowels in Tengwar modes that employ separate vowel letters, like the Mode of Beleriand.
annabon
long-snouted one
pl. ennebyn, coll. pl. annabonnath. (Archaic form andabon.)
and
long
(adjective) and (pl. aind),
and
long
(pl. aind)
angerthas
long rune-row
(and + certhas).
taen
thin
(lenited daen, no distinct pl. form). Note: a homophone means ”height, summit of high mountain”.
ennin
long year
. No distinct pl. form, but coll. pl. enniniath.
brûn
long endured/established/in use
(old), lenited vrûn, pl. bruin;
The Dwarvish tribe of northwestern Middle-earth, also known as Durin’s Folk (PM/321). The name translates as “Longbeard”, a compound of and “long” and fang “beard” (PM/321). The name also appears in its plural form Enfeng and its class-plural Anfangrim (PM/321, WJ/10).
Conceptual Development: In the Lost Tales and the earliest Silmarillion drafts this tribe was called the G. Indrafang (LT2/68, SM/104). In the Gnomish Lexicon from the 1910s, the variant form G. Surfang or Fangsur also appeared (GL/68). The name was later changed to N. Enfeng (plural) in Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s (LR/274), and the singular form N. An(d)fang appeared in The Etymologies (Ety/ÁNAD, SPÁNAG).
The name S. Enfeng appeared in Silmarillion revisions from the 1950s-60s (WJ/10, 75), but did not appear in the published version of The Silmarillion. The name was referenced in some notes to Tolkien’s essay “Of Dwarves and Men”, composed around 1969, along with Khuzdul and Quenya translations (PM/321).