vanga

beard

vanga noun "beard" (LT2:344, GL:21; in Tolkien's later Quenya fanga)

fanga

beard

fanga noun "beard" (SPÁNAG)

fanga

noun. beard

A noun for “beard” in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from the root ᴹ√SPANAG (Ety/SPÁNAG), where the [[aq|initial [sp-] became the voiceless spirant [f]]]. It reappeared in the 1960s as an element in the name Q. Andafangar “Longbeards” (PM/321 note #21).

Conceptual Development: In the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, Tolkien gave ᴱQ. fange as cognate of G. fang “a long beard” (GL/34). Elsewhere in the same document he had ᴱQ. vanga as cognate of G. bang “beard”, but both these words were deleted (GL/21). Other early “beard” words include ᴱQ. velte under the early root ᴱ√VETE (QL/101), and ᴱQ. poa as a cognate to G. pau “a beard” (GL/63).

Cognates

• S. fang “beard, beard, [G.] long beard”

Element in

• Q. Andafangar “Longbeards” ✧ PM/321

vandl

staff

vandl noun "staff" (LT1:264) (No word can end in -dl in Tolkien's later Quenya; the word may be adapted as *vandil. Compare findl, findil.)

poa

beard

poa noun "beard" (GL:63). Rather fanga in Tolkien's later Quenya

vanga

noun. staff

Cognates

• ᴺS. bang “staff”

vandil

noun. staff