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

fung

adjective. dark (esp. of colour)

An adjective in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “dark (esp. of colour)” derived from ᴱ√fuʒu (GL/36), but that was likely just the Gnomish variant of the early root ᴱ√ǶUẎU (QL/41).

Derivations

  • ᴱ√ǶUẎU “*darkness” ✧ GL/36