Ai! Lá polin saca i quettar!
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A serpent name appearing in The Etymologies from the 1930s (Ety/STAK), a combination of lham(b) “tongue” and thanc “forked”.
Conceptual Development: In Early Noldorin word lists of the 1920s, it appeared as ᴱN. lamthanc “snake”, also a combination of ᴱN. lam “tongue” and ᴱN. thanc “cleft, split, forked”, hence literally “✱forked tongue” (PE13/154, 165).