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S. lŷg n. “snake” (Category: Snake)

S. lŷg, n. “snake” (Category: Snake)
G. fenlug “snake”
G. fent “snake”
ᴱN. lamthanc “snake, *(lit.) forked tongue”

The best known Sindarin word for “snake”, appearing in Appendix E of The Lord of the Rings (LotR/1115). In 1964 notes on Dalath Dirnen (DD), Tolkien said it was derived from the root √LEWEK “worm” (PE17/160), likely from *leukā where the ancient eu became ȳ as was usual in Sindarin (LotR/1115).

References ✧ LotR/1115; PE17/121, 160

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LEWEK > lýg [leukā] > [leuka] > [liuka] > [lȳka] > [lȳk] > [lȳg] ✧ PE17/160

G. ling n. “small snake” (Category: Snake)

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).

Reference ✧ GL/54 ✧ “small snake”

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G. lingos n. “snake” (Category: Snake)

See G. ling for discussion.

Reference ✧ GL/54 ✧ “snake”

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ling “small snake” ✧ GL/54

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