Eldamo : Quenya : filincë

Q. filincë n. “finch” (Category: Bird (other))

Q. filincë, n. “finch” (Category: Bird (other))

A word for “finch” appearing in Primitive Quendian Structure: Final Consonants from 1936 and Common Eldarin: Noun Structure from the early 1950s, derived form the root √PHILIK (PE21/56, 72). See also ᴹQ. filit “sparrow, small bird”.

Conceptual Development: In the early 1930s document Declension of Nouns, Tolkien gave ᴹQ. liri for “finch”.

Reference ✧ PE21/72 ✧ filinke “finch”

Cognates

S. flinc “finch” ✧ PE21/72

Derivations

< √PHILIK “finch” ✧ PE21/71

Phonetic Developments

√philik > filinke

[pʰiliŋke] > [ɸiliŋke] > [filiŋke]

✧ PE21/72

ᴹQ. filinke n. “*finch” (Category: Bird (other))

See Q. filincë for discussion.

Reference ✧ PE21/56

Cognates

N. flinc “*finch” ✧ PE21/56

Derivations

< ᴹ✶philínkē ✧ PE21/56
- < ᴹ√PHILIK “small bird” ✧ PE21/56 (spilik); PE21/56

Phonetic Developments

ᴹ✶philínkē > filinke

[pʰiliŋke] > [ɸiliŋke] > [filiŋke]

✧ PE21/56

ᴹQ. liri n. “finch” (Category: Bird (other))

See Q. filincë for discussion.

Reference ✧ PE21/14 ✧ “finch”

Derivations

< ᴹ√LIR¹ “sing, trill”