Eldamo : Early Primitive Elvish : FEŊE

ᴱ√FEŊE root. “*cut”

⚠️ᴱ√FEŊE root. “*cut”: √KIR “cut, cleave, pass swiftly through; ⚠️shave; skim (surface), slip along, glide quickly”

A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with Qenya derivatives having to do with cutting (QL/38). The contemporaneous Gnomish word G. feng “arrow” is likely derived from this root (GL/34). There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing.

Reference ✧ QL/38

Derivatives

> ᴱQ. fen “reed” ✧ QL/38
> ᴱQ. #feng- “to cut” ✧ QL/38
> ᴱQ. fenqa “keen, cutting” ✧ QL/38
> G. feng “arrow, war arrow”
- ⇒ G. fengvain “quiver” ✧ GL/34
- ⇒ G. fengwathil “arrow feathering” ✧ GL/34
- ⇒ G. gothfeng “(war-)arrow, a great arrow; an arrow sent as a summons to war” ✧ GL/42