Quenya 

findilë

head of hair

findilë noun "a head of hair". Compare findessë. (PE17:17)

findilë

noun. head of hair

Cognates

  • S. finnel “head of hair, fax, mass of long hair; having fine or beautiful hair, head of hair, fax, mass of long hair; having fine or beautiful hair; [N.] (braided) hair; [G.] tress” ✧ PE17/017

Derivations

Element in

Elements

WordGloss
findë“hair (especially of the head), tress or plait of hair, hair (especially of the head); tress or plait of hair, [ᴹQ.] braid of hair”
-lë“abstract noun, adverb”

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
spindilā > findile[spindele] > [ɸindele] > [findele]✧ PE17/017

Variations

  • findile ✧ PE17/017

findë

hair

findë (1) noun "hair" (especially of the head) (PM:340), "a tress or plait of hair" (PM:345), "tress, braid of hair, lock of hair" (SPIN)

finë

hair

finë (1) (stem *fini-, given the primitive form ¤phini) noun "a hair" _(PM:340, PE17:17) or "larch" (SPIN)_

findessë

head of hair, a person's hair as a whole

findessë noun "a head of hair, a person's hair as a whole" (PM:345). Compare findilë.

phindelë

mass of long hair

phindelë noun "mass of long hair" (PE17:17; the normal Quenya spelling should be findelë, cf. findilë

loxë

hair

loxë (1) ("ks")noun "hair" (LOK). In later sources Tolkien uses findë, findessë, findilë for "hair", leaving the conceptual status of loxë uncertain.

Sindarin 

finnel

noun. mass of long hair

n. mass of long hair. >> find, finn

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:17] < O.S. _findel _ < *_spin-delē _mass of hairs, head of hair < SPIN a single hair, filament + DEL thick, dense. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

laws

noun. hair ringlet

Sindarin [Ety/370, X/LH] Group: SINDICT. Published by

find

hair

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

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)

fast

shaggy hair

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

Primitive elvish

spindilā

noun. head of hair

Derivatives

  • Q. findelë “tress, lock [of hair]” ✧ PE17/017
  • Q. findilë “head of hair” ✧ PE17/017
  • S. finnel “head of hair, fax, mass of long hair; having fine or beautiful hair, head of hair, fax, mass of long hair; having fine or beautiful hair; [N.] (braided) hair; [G.] tress” ✧ PE17/017; PE17/017; PE17/119; PE17/151

Element in

Variations

  • phin-dela ✧ PE17/017
  • espin-delē ✧ PE17/017 (espin-delē)
  • spin-delē ✧ PE17/017 (spin-delē)
  • spin-dela ✧ PE17/119
  • spindela ✧ PE17/151
Primitive elvish [PE17/017; PE17/119; PE17/151] Group: Eldamo. Published by

phin

root. hair

Noldorin 

findel

noun. (braided) hair

Noldorin [Ety/387, X/ND2] Group: SINDICT. Published by

finnel

noun. (braided) hair

Noldorin [Ety/387, X/ND2] Group: SINDICT. Published by

lhaws

noun. hair ringlet

Noldorin [Ety/370, X/LH] Group: SINDICT. Published by

fast

noun. shaggy hair

Noldorin [Ety/381] Group: SINDICT. Published by

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Valarin 

(a)šata

noun. head of hair

Element in

Qenya 

lokse

noun. hair, hair [in general]

A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “hair” derived from the root ᴹ√LOKH (Ety/LOKH).

Conceptual Development: A similar word ᴱQ. laksa “tress” appeared in a list of body parts from the 1920s (PE14/117).

Cognates

  • N. lhaws “ringlet” ✧ Ety/LOKH

Derivations

  • ᴹ√LOKH “*curl of hair” ✧ Ety/LOKH

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ√LOKH > lokse[lokʰse] > [lokse]✧ Ety/LOKH

Early Noldorin

find

noun. hair

Variations

  • finn ✧ PE13/143
Early Noldorin [PE13/143] Group: Eldamo. Published by

finn

noun. hair