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

muin

adjective. safe, secure

An adjective appearing in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s as G. muin “safe, secure” with a variant form muim added and deleted (GL/58).

muin

noun. kine, cattle

A word in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “kine, cattle”, apparently a collective noun related to G. mû “ox” (GL/58).

muinos

noun. security

A noun glossed “security” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s based on G. muin “safe, secure” (GL/58).

cwist

noun. secret

hethir

noun. sister

A word for “sister” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, a feminized form of G. heth “brother or sister, ✱sibling”, along with several (archaic) variant forms hethwin, hestril, and hethril (GL/48). It was ultimately derived from the early root ᴱ√HESE [HEÞE?] (QL/40).

hethos

noun. brother

A word for “brother” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, a masculinized form of G. heth “brother or sister, ✱sibling”, along with several (archaic?) variant forms {hethweg >>} hethwig, hestron, and hethron (GL/48-49). It was ultimately derived from the early root ᴱ√HESE [HEÞE?] (QL/40).

mu

preposition. will, am going to, am about to

mugwen

adjective. secret

mutha

preposition. will, am going to, am about to

tubrin

adjective. hidden