Eldamo : Early Primitive Elvish : FIŊI

ᴱ√FIŊI root. “*narrow”

⚠️ᴱ√FIŊI root. “*narrow”: √NAKH “narrow, thin”; ᴹ√AK “narrow, confined”

An unglossed root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives having do with narrow things like ᴱQ. fingwa “narrow” and ᴱQ. fingil “narrows, straits, gulf” (QL/38). Both these words have Gnomish cognates: G. fing “narrow” and G. fingli “a narrow place, straits, a sound, a pass in mountains” (GL/35). There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing.

Reference ✧ QL/38

Derivatives

> ᴱQ. fingil “narrows, straits, gulf” ✧ QL/38
> ᴱQ. fingwa “narrow” ✧ QL/38
> G. fing “narrow”
- ⇒ G. fingli “narrow place, straits, sound, pass in mountains” ✧ GL/35