fintalë

trick

#fintalë noun "trick", given as pl. fintaler (PE17:119)

fintalë

noun. trick

Derivations

• √PHIN “clever, skillful; neat, fine, delicate; skill, dexterity, clever, skillful; neat, fine, delicate; skill, dexterity, [ᴹ√] nimbleness” ✧ PE17/119

Elements

Word	Gloss
finta-	“to make, finish off, decorate a thing with delicate work; to show skill”
-lë	“abstract noun, adverb”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
√PHINĪ > fintaler	[pʰintaler] > [ɸintaler] > [fintaler]	✧ PE17/119

-a

it is said

-r nominative plural ending regularly used on nouns ending in -a, -i, -ië, -o, -u, e.g. Ainur, Valar, tier. Occasionally it is added also to nouns ending in -ë (that normally take the ending -I in the pl.). This seems to regularly happen in the case of nouns in -lë (see #fintalë, mallë, tyellë), sometimes also otherwise (see Ingwë, wendë, essë #1). This plural ending was ("it is said") first used by the Noldor (PM:402).

finc

noun. trick

Cognates

• Q. finca “clever (in petty ways), clever (in petty ways), *tricky”

Derivations

• √PHIN “clever, skillful; neat, fine, delicate; skill, dexterity, clever, skillful; neat, fine, delicate; skill, dexterity, [ᴹ√] nimbleness”

rinc

trick

(noun) rinc (twitch, jerk, sudden move), no distinct pl. form except with article (idh rinc), coll. pl. ringiath

rinc

trick

(twitch, jerk, sudden move), no distinct pl. form except with article (idh rinc), coll. pl. ringiath