Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
barn
adjective. tilled, inhabited
Derivations
- ᴱ√MBARA “dwell, live”
Variations
- baron ✧ GL/21
baron
adjective. tilled, inhabited
tump
noun. shed
A noun appearing as G. tump “shed” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/71), clearly a cognate to ᴱQ. tumpo “shed, barn” which was derived from either ᴱ√TṂPṂ or ᴱ√TUPU (QL/93, 95).
Neo-Sindarin: Since √TUP “cover” survived in Tolkien’s later writings, I think this word can be salvaged as ᴺS. tump “shed”, though it does conflict with [N.] tump “hump”.
Cognates
- Eq. tumpo “shed, barn”
Derivations
- ᴱ√TUPU “*cover”
An adjective appearing as G. barn or baron “tilled, inhabited” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/21), clearly derived from the early root ᴱ√MBARA “dwell, live” (QL/63). As such, likely this word originally meant “inhabited” and the sense was later extended to “inhabited and prepared for cultivation” = “tilled”. As such it likely refers primarily to inhabited land rather than inhabited dwellings, and more specifically to tilled land inhabited by an agricultural people rather than simple hunter-gatherers.
Neo-Sindarin: Since √MBAR continues to appear in Tolkien’s later writings, I would retain ᴺS. baron “tilled, inhabited” for purposes of Neo-Sindarin.