Primitive elvish
philik
root. finch, finch, [ᴹ√] small bird
Derivatives
Variations
- philik ✧ PE21/71; PE21/80
philinki
noun. finch
Derivations
- √PHILIK “finch, finch, [ᴹ√] small bird” ✧ PE21/80
Derivatives
- S. flinc “finch” ✧ PE21/80
Variations
- philinkĭ ✧ PE21/80
This root first appeared as ᴹ√PHILIK “small bird” in The Etymologies of the 1930s with derivatives ᴹQ. filit and N. fileg of the same meaning (Ety/PHILIK). The root also appeared in the contemporaneous Primitive Quendian Structure: Final Consonants with an extra gloss “sparrow”, a deleted variant spilik-, and some additional (unglossed) derivatives ᴹQ. filinke and N. flinc (PE21/56). The root and these last two derivatives reappeared in Common Eldarin: Noun Structure from the early 1950s, in this document with the gloss “finch” (PE21/71-72, 80-81). Note that a likely early precursor to all these words was G. bilinc “sparrow, bird (small)” (GL/23).
Neo-Eldarin: For purposes of Neo-Eldarin, I think it is best to assume the root √PHILIK = “small bird”, with ᴹQ. filit/N. fileg = “sparrow” and Q. filincë/S. flinc = “finch”.