Gnomish
amrog-dorn
noun. brown wanderer, gipsy
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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!
amrog-dorn
noun. brown wanderer, gipsy
A word glossed “brown wanderer, gipsy” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, a combination of G. amrog “wanderer” and the mutated form of G. torn “swart, dark-brown”, with a plural form amruith-torni (GL/19). It is not clear how plural amruith relates to singular amrog, but it might contain a variant form of G. gwaith “people” (GL/44): amr + gw(a)ith > amrwith > amruith.