Gnomish
orfing
noun. pear
Elements
Word Gloss orf “apple” fingl “tress”
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orfing
noun. pear
Elements
Word Gloss orf “apple” fingl “tress”
A word appearing as G. orfing (orf-fing) “pear” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/63). Its first element is clearly G. orf “apple”, and its second element is likely related to G. fingl “tress” (GL/35), so perhaps “✱hair-apple”.
Neo-Quenya: I’d retain ᴺS. orfing for purposes of Neo-Sindarin, with its second element still being S. fing “hair”.