Gnomish
giltha
noun. white metal
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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!
giltha
noun. white metal
A general term for “white metal” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, originally the equivalent of G. celeb “silver” but expanded to include similarly colored metals like G. gais “steel” and G. ladog “tin” (GL/38). It was based on the early root ᴱ√Gil-.