Quenya 

filincë

noun. finch

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”.

Cognates

  • S. flinc “finch” ✧ PE21/72

Derivations

  • √PHILIK “finch, finch, [ᴹ√] small bird” ✧ PE21/71

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
√philik > filinke[pʰiliŋke] > [ɸiliŋke] > [filiŋke]✧ PE21/71

Variations

  • filinke ✧ PE21/72