S. Firion n. “(Male) Mortal” (Category: Man)
A masculine form of Feir “Mortal (Man)”, a combination of that term with the masculine suffix -on (WJ/387).
Conceptual Development: Earlier words for a “male Mortal” include G. idhweg from the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/50) and ᴱN. fionweg from the Index of Names for The Lay of the Children of Húrin from the early 1920s (PE15/62), both masculinized forms of the contemporaneous words for “Mortal” or “Man (as a species)”.
Reference ✧ WJ/387 ✧ “(m.sg.) Man”
Elements
| Feir | “Mortal” | ✧ WJ/387 |
| -on¹ | “masculine suffix” | ✧ WJ/387 |
ᴱN. fionweg n. “a man” (Category: Man)
Reference ✧ PE15/62 ✧ “a man”
Elements
| fion | “mortal man” | ✧ PE15/62 |