Gnomish
ling
noun. small snake
Cognates
- Eq. lin “snake”
Derivations
- ᴱ√LIŊI “snake”
Element in
ing
noun. fish
Cognates
- Eq. ingwe “fish”
Derivations
- ᴱ√IWI “*fish”
Element in
- G. igli “young of fish, small fry” ✧ GL/51
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A word for a “small snake” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, along a longer form G. lingos “snake” (GL/54), clearly a cognate of ᴱQ. lin (ling-) “snake” from the contemporaneous Qenya Lexicon (QL/54).