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!

Gnomish

tang

noun. flame, flash

A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “a flame, a flash”, derived from the early root ᴱ√tan- (GL/69).

Derivations

  • ᴱ√TANA “*fire, kindle” ✧ GL/69

Element in

  • G. Tanfa “lowest of all airs, hot air of the deep places” ✧ GL/69
Gnomish [GL/69; LT1A/Tanyasalpë] Group: Eldamo. Published by

cantha

noun. flame

A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “flame” (GL/25), probably based on the early root ᴱ√KṆŘṆ [KṆÐṆ] “shine” (QL/47).

Element in

Elements

WordGloss
KṆÐṆ“shine”
-tha“noun or adjective suffix”