(breaker), pl. felf, coll. pl. falvath
Sindarin
gwing
noun. spindrift, flying spray
gwing
noun. foam (properly a flying spume or spindrift blown off wavetops)
gwing
noun. foam, spindrift, foam, spindrift, [N.] flying spray; [G.] wave-crest
Cognates
Derivations
- ᴹ√WIG “*foam”
Element in
falf
foam
faltha
foam
(i faltha, i falthar)
faltha
foam
(verb) faltha- (i faltha, i falthar)
hross
noun. foam
n. foam. >> ross
ross
foam
(construct ros) (rain, dew, spray [of fall or fountain]), pl. ryss (idh ryss) (Letters:282). Note: homophones mean ”reddish, russet, copper-coloured, red-haired” and also ”polished metal, glitter”
ross
noun. foam
n. foam. >> hross
ross
spray
(construct ros) (foam, rain, dew), pl. ryss (idh ryss). (Letters:282) Note: homophones mean ”reddish, russet, copper-coloured, red-haired” and also ”polished metal, glitter”.
gwing
foam
(i ’wing) (spindrift, spume, spray blown off wave-tops), no distinct pl. form except with article (in gwing)
gwing
foam
1) gwing (i **wing) (spindrift, spume, spray blown off wave-tops), no distinct pl. form except with article (in gwing), 2) ross (construct ros) (rain, dew, spray [of fall or fountain]), pl. ryss (idh ryss) (Letters:282). Note: homophones mean ”reddish, russet, copper-coloured, red-haired” and also ”polished metal, glitter”, 3) falf (breaker), pl. felf, coll. pl. falvath**
gwing
spray
1) (blown off wave-tops) gwing (i **wing) (foam, spindrift, spume), no distinct pl. form except with article (in gwing); 2) (of fall or fountain) ross (construct ros) (foam, rain, dew), pl. ryss (idh ryss**). (Letters:282) Note: homophones mean ”reddish, russet, copper-coloured, red-haired” and also ”polished metal, glitter”.
gwing
spray
(i ’wing) (foam, spindrift, spume), no distinct pl. form except with article (in gwing)
gwing
spindrift
gwing (i **wing) (foam, spume, spray blown off wave-tops), no distinct pl. form except with article (in gwing**)
gwing
spindrift
(i ’wing) (foam, spume, spray blown off wave-tops), no distinct pl. form except with article (in gwing)
gwing
spume
gwing (i **wing) (foam, spindrift, spray blown off wave-tops), no distinct pl. form except with article (in gwing**)
gwing
spume
(i ’wing) (foam, spindrift, spray blown off wave-tops), no distinct pl. form except with article (in gwing)
A noun for foam, sprindrift and flying spray, a derivative of the root ᴹ√WIG (Ety/WIG), most notably an element in the name S. Elwing “Star-spray” (PM/376).
Conceptual Development: This word appeared all the way back in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s as G. gwing “a wave-crest, crest, foam”, where Tolkien connected it to G. uin “whale” (archaically “a wave”) via a primitive form ᴱ√uı̯u (GL/45, 74). N. gwing “spindrift, flying spray” appeared again in The Etymologies of the 1930s as a derivative of the root ᴹ√WIG (Ety/WIG). In later writings, Tolkien seems to have considered gwing problematic, at various points changing it to a loan word from Nandorin (PM/349) or Beorian (PM/368), but these seem to have been transient ideas: in a very late note from the 1970s he said it was Sindarin (PM/392).