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

rimp

noun. shred, slice, sliver

A noun appearing as G. rimp “shred, slice, sliver” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/65). It was probably based on the early root ᴱ√RIPI “a rim” from the contemporaneous Qenya Lexicon; compare ᴱQ. ripta- “to cut in strips, tear up” from this same root (QL/80).

Neo-Sindarin: Since I retain the Neo-Root ᴺ√RIP with the sense “strip, stripe”, I would retain ᴺS. rimp “shred, slice, sliver” as well.

raibrog

noun. zebra

The word for “zebra” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s was raibrog or ribrog with a feminine variant raibros, a combination of G. raib “striped” and G. brog “horse” (GL/64).

Neo-Sindarin: I’d adapt this word as ᴺS. raebroch for purposes of Neo-Sindarin, using the later word S. roch for “horse”.

Gnomish [GL/64; GL/65] Group: Eldamo. Published by

ribrog

noun. zebra