fîn

noun. (single) hair, filament

A noun for a single hair appearing in The Shibboleth of Fëanor from 1968 derived from primitive ✶phini- (PM/362 note #37). The form fin- also appeared in a torn-half sheet as a derivative of √SPIN- “a single hair, filament” (PE17/17).

Conceptual Development: Earlier words for a single hair include G. fith, pl. fidhin from the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/35) and ᴱN. fîr from Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s (PE13/143).

fîn

noun. a tress

find

noun. a tress

finn-

noun. a tress

fîn

hair

1) (a single hair) fîn (construct fin), no distinct pl. form. (PM:362), 2) (lock of hair, tress) find (construct fin), no distinct pl. form, coll. pl. finnath.

fîn

hair

(construct fin), no distinct pl. form. (PM:362)

find

hair

(construct fin), no distinct pl. form, coll. pl. finnath.

find

tress

find (lock of hair). Construct fin; no distinct pl. form; coll pl. finnath.

find

tress

(lock of hair). Construct fin; no distinct pl. form; coll pl. finnath.

cidinn

?. [unglossed]

cinnog

?. [unglossed]

laws

noun. hair ringlet

madu

?. [unglossed]

maud

?. [unglossed]

fast

shaggy hair

(pl. faist if there is a pl.).