curufinwë
masculine name. *Skilled-Finwë
Cognates
- S. Curufin “*Skilled-Finwë” ✧ PMI/Curufin; VT41/10
Elements
Word Gloss curu “skill, skill; [ᴱQ.] magic, wizardry” Finwë Variations
- Kurufinwë ✧ PE17/118; PM/343; PMI/Curufin; PMI/Kurufinwë
- Kurufinwe ✧ PM/352; VT41/10
- Kurvo ✧ PM/352; PMI/Curufin
- Curufin(wë) ✧ SA/curu
Curufin
noun. Curufin
prop. n.
curufin
masculine name. *Skilled-Finwë
5th son of Fëanor, called “the crafty” (S/60). His Sindarin name is adapted from his Quenya father-name Q. Curufinwë “✱Skilled-Finwë” (MR/217, PM/343). This name is a combination of S. curu “skill” and the Sindarized form S. fin of his grandfather’s name Q. Finwë (VT41/10), also seen in the name S. Finarfin.
Conceptual Development: This character was named G. Curufin when he first appeared earliest Lost Tales, already with the sobriquet “Crafty” (LT2/241). The name N. Curufin appeared in The Etymologies from the 1930s as a combination of N. curu “cunning” and a suffixal form of ON. phinya “skillful” (Ety/KUR, PHIN). The derivation from his Quenya name did not emerge until after Silmarillion revisions from the 1950s-60s (MR/217).
Cognates
Elements
Word Gloss curu “skill (of the hand), craft; power, ability, skill (of the hand), craft; power, ability; [N.] cunning; [ᴱN.] magic” fin “Finwë”
curufin
masculine name. Crafty
Elements
Word Gloss curu “cunning” phinya “skillful”
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Curufin
Curufin (name)
Curufin's father-name was Curufinwë ("Skillful [son of] Finwë"), the same father-name given to Fëanor. Because Curufin was Fëanor's favorite son, he chose to give him the same name. His mother-name was Atarinkë ("Little Father"), choosen because of his physical resemblance to his father. The name Curufin is the Sindarin version of his father-name. It is stated in The Shibboleth of Fëanor that of all the sons of Fëanor only Curufin did not prefer to use his mother-name.
curufin
masculine name. Crafty
curufin
masculine name. Curufin
The father-name of S. Curufin, from which his Sindarin name was derived (MR/217, PM/352). It is a compound of curu “skill” and his grandfather’s name Finwë. The short form of this name was Curvo (PM/352). This name was also the father-name of Curufin’s father, Fëanor (S/63, MR/87).