A word appearing as {finweth >>} finwi, fimli “skill” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, apparently a noun form of G. fim “clever, right hand” (GL/35).
Gnomish
curufin
masculine name. Crafty
ador
noun. father
bâb
noun. father
fimli
noun. skill
finwi
noun. skill
nathon
noun. father
A word for “father” in the Gnomish Lexicon Slips (PE13/111). In the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s itself, G. babi or baba was “mummy, mamma” (GL/21, 57). As pointed out by Gilson, Welden, Hostetter and Wynne, there is a complementary change of {nân “father” >>} G. nân “mother” elsewhere in the Gnomish Lexicon Slips (PE13/115).