adûnayân

noun. language of Númenor

The language of Númenor, appearing in a 1965 document first published in Nature of Middle-earth in 2021 (NM/323). Prior to that point, various hypothetical words have been proposed for this language’s name, such as ✱Adûnaiyê (Andreas Moehn, EotAL), ✱Adûnâyê (Thorsten Renk, NBA/1), and Adûnâiyê (my own invention), modelled after Nimriyê “Elvish”.

Derivatives

• Wes. Adûni “Westron”

Elements

Word	Gloss
Adûnâ	“Númenórean, (lit.) Westerner”