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Elvish

inga is an Elvish word meaning "first", said to be (or perhaps derive from) an element in "Elfin and especially Lindarin names". The word appears without any specific designated language.[1]

Helge Fauskanger has suggested that the word (and its meaning) could be valid Neo-Quenya.[2]

Etymology

Compounds

Quenya

inga is a Quenya word meaning "top", which was "only applied to shapes pointing upwards" and referred "primarily to position and could be used of tops relatively broad".[3]

See also

  • tilma
  • tile

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, Part Three: "The Etymologies", p. 361
  2. Helge Fauskanger, "English-Quenya Wordlist (Quettaparma Quenyanna)" at Ardalambion (accessed 25 June 2011)
  3. J.R.R. Tolkien, "Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals and Related Writings — Part One" (edited by Patrick H. Wynne), in Vinyar Tengwar, Number 47, February 2005, p. 28