Gnomish
adhwen
noun. approach, avenue
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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!
adhwen
noun. approach, avenue
The noun G. adhwen “approach, avenue” appeared the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s near another word G. {anda >>} anna “door” (GL/17, 19). Remnants of this word can also be seen in a torn page of the Gnomish Lexicon Slips, where all that remains is [...]en with the gloss “approach”, with its primitive form ᴱ✶adu̯en- also given (PE13/108). There is no root ᴱ√AD in the contemporaneous Qenya Lexicon, but this word might be an early manifestation of ᴹ√AD “gate, enter” from The Etymologies of the 1930s (Ety/AD).
Neo-Sindarin: For purposes of Neo-Sindarin, I would adapt this word was ᴺS. anwen “approach, avenue”, derived from a combination of √AN “towards” and √MEN “way”, where [[s|[nm] became [nw]]].