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Middle Primitive Elvish

spanag

root. *beard

An unglossed root in The Etymologies of the 1930s with derivatives like ᴹQ. fanga/N. fang “beard” (Ety/SPÁNAG). These forms appeared as ᴱQ. fange/G. fang “beard” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/34) where they replaced rejected ᴱQ. vanga/G. bang (GL/21). Tolkien’s continued use of Q. fanga/S. fang for “beard” in names like S. Anfang “Long Beard” indicate the durability of this root.

Derivatives

  • ᴹ✶spangā “beard” ✧ Ety/SPÁNAG
    • ᴹQ. fanga “beard” ✧ Ety/SPÁNAG
    • On. sphanga “beard” ✧ Ety/SPÁNAG
    • N. fang “beard” ✧ Ety/SPÁNAG
    • ᴹT. spanga “beard” ✧ Ety/SPÁNAG

Element in

  • N. An(d)fang “Longbeard” ✧ Ety/ÁNAD
  • N. Tinfang “Starbeard” ✧ EtyAC/TIN

Variations

  • SPÁNAG ✧ Ety/ÁNAD; Ety/SPÁNAG; EtyAC/TIN
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/ÁNAD; Ety/SPÁNAG; EtyAC/TIN] Group: Eldamo. Published by