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

lûg

noun. snake

Gnomish [GL/34; LT2A/Foalókë; PE13/105; PE15/28] Group: Eldamo. Published by

fenlug

noun. snake

elt

noun. dig, poke (probe), tug, lug

elta-

verb. to draw, tug, lug; to thrust, dig, poke (inward)

fent

noun. snake

A word for “snake” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, along with a deleted variant fenlug (fenlog-) (GL/34), the latter probably a combination with G. lûg “snake”. It was clearly a cognate of ᴱQ. fent “serpent” from the contemporaneous Qenya Lexicon (QL/38).

cilt

noun. jerk

ciltha-

verb. to tug, jerk (out)

hal(a)-

verb. to drag, draw, pull

A verb in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “drag, draw, pull, (espec. draw home, pull towards oneself, draw on or over, of clothes, etc.), slip on” (GL/47). Its derivation is unclear, since the only similar early root in the contemporaneous Qenya Lexicon is ᴱ√HALA whose derivatives had to do with leaping (QL/39).

Neo-Sindarin: For purposes of Neo-Sindarin, I would instead use the neologisms ᴺS. log- “to haul, drag” and ᴺS. thag- “to draw, pull”; see those entries for details.

Gnomish [GL/47; GL/59] Group: Eldamo. Published by

halcha-

verb. to drag on ground (roughly)

A verb appearing as {halca- >>} halcha- “drag on ground (roughly)” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, an elaboration of G. hala- “drag, draw, pull” (GL/47).

lingos

noun. snake