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Gnomish

finweg

noun. craftsman, man of skill

A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “craftsman, man of skill”, a combination of G. fim “clever, right hand” and the masculine suffix G. -weg (GL/35), so probably originally meaning something like “✱handyman”.

Gnomish [GL/35; LT1A/Finwë] Group: Eldamo. Published by