The Ultimate Discourse About Gildor

[Galin]

Originally Posted by William Cloud Hicklin

Not necessarily: as I said, it could have a figurative tribal sense like OE -lingas.

I think the A.S. patronymic is -ing, -ingas (-ling is a suffix for forming personal nouns and adverbs)

'The patronymic -ing is used occasionally to form common nouns, as cyning, 'king', but more often with personal names to indicate 'the son of', as in Æthelwulfing, son of Ethelwulf, or a tribe, as in Helmingas, descendants of Helm.' An Anglo-Saxon Reader (Krapp and Kennedy)

But this is Elvish not Old English in any case. It seems the Elvish patronymic can be used in another way, like possibly Falassion *'son of the coast' for example (obviously not an actual child of the coast), but I think in this example, attached to a name, I would tend to go with 'son, descendant' of some Elf named Inglor.