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

fam

noun. fat belly, paunch

A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “fat belly, paunch”, cognate to ᴱQ. famba and hence derived from the early root ᴱ√FAɃA (GL/34; QL/36).

Cognates

  • Eq. famba “belly, fat body” ✧ GL/34

Derivations

  • ᴱ√FAVA “*fat”

Element in

  • G. famfolc “fat-bellied” ✧ GL/34
  • G. fabwed “corpulent” ✧ GL/34