Eldamo : Sindarin : lebig

S. lebig n. “little finger” (Category: Finger)

S. lebig, n. “little finger” (Category: Finger)

A name for the little finger in notes on Eldarin Hands, Fingers and Numerals from 1968, it is simply ✶lepe “finger” combined with the diminutive suffix -ig (VT48/5). An alternate form niged had the same meaning, an elaboration of √NIK “small” (VT48/5).

Conceptual Development: The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had G. lemp⁽¹⁾ “a crooked finger; little finger” (GL/53), clearly based on the early root ᴱ√LEPE used for contemporaneous Qenya finger words (QL/53).

Reference ✧ VT48/5 ✧ “little finger”

lebig “little finger” = niged “little finger” ✧ VT48/5

Elements

leber	“finger”	✧ VT48/5
-eg¹	“diminutive/singular ending”

Cognates

Q. lepincë “little finger” ✧ VT48/5 (lepinke)

G. lemp¹ n. “crooked finger; little finger” (Category: Finger)

See S. lebig for discussion.

References ✧ GL/53

Glosses

“a crooked finger; little finger” ✧ GL/53

lemp [beside] leptha “finger” ✧ GL/53

Element In

G. o·gwath lemp nin “he beckons, *(lit.) he wags a finger at me” ✧ GL/53

Derivations

< ᴱ√LEPE “*finger”