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

baron

adjective. tilled, inhabited

baron

adverb. from home, out, away, abroad

Changes

  • bara → baron ✧ GL/21
  • barthos → barog ✧ GL/21

Variations

  • baron ✧ GL/21
  • barog ✧ GL/21
  • bara ✧ GL/21 (bara)
  • barthos ✧ GL/21 (barthos)

barn

adjective. tilled, inhabited

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.

Derivations

  • ᴱ√MBARA “dwell, live”

Variations

  • baron ✧ GL/21

barog

adverb. from home, out, away, abroad