Gnomish
ther-
verb. to tie
meleth
noun. love
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!
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!
ther-
verb. to tie
meleth
noun. love
A verb in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “to tie” (GL/72), probably based on the early root ᴱ√SERE “twine, tie, bind” from the contemporaneous Qenya Lexicon, whose true form was probably ✱ᴱ√ÞERE (QL/83). In Tolkien’s later writings, √THER was “sew”; see that entry for details.