fing (no distinct pl. form)
Sindarin
fing
noun. lock of hair
Cognates
- Q. finca “[unglossed]” ✧ PE17/017
Derivations
Element in
- S. Finglas “Leaflock” ✧ RC/760
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶finik/fink > fineg [pʰinika] > [ɸinika] > [ɸineka] > [fineka] > [finek] > [fineg] ✧ PE17/017 Variations
- fineg ✧ PE17/017
fing
noun. lock of hair
fing
lock of hair
find
lock of hair
find (tress). Construct fin; no distinct pl. form; coll pl. finnath
agor
narrow
agor (analogical pl. egyr). In archaic S agr.
A noun appearing in 1967 notes on the Nomenclature of the Lord of the Rings as an element in Finglas “Leaflock” (RC/760). The form fineg appeared unglossed in notes from around 1965 as a derivative of ✶phinik (PE17/17). The word fing is more obscure than S. find of similar meaning.
Conceptual Development: The word G. fingl or finnil “a tress” appeared in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/35). In that period, the gl was probably the result of the sound change whereby ðl became gl, since this early form was likely derived from the root ᴱ√FIŘI [FIÐI] (QL/38). When it first appeared, the name N. Finglas (= find + las?) may also have had a similar sound change, but since Tolkien abandoned that phonetic rule in Sindarin of the 1950s and 60s (compare S. edlenn vs. N. eglenn “exiled”), Tolkien needed to come up with a new etymology.