Appendix:Adûni

Adûni is the autonym for a constructed language created by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien in the early 20th century and better known by the English exonym Westron (the language of the West, i.e. the Shire). In Tolkien's legendarium, Adûni is primarily spoken by hobbits.

Selected words

• Adûni (“Westron”)
• ban (“half”)
• balk (“horrible”)
• banakil (“halfling”)
• bara- (“quick”)
• -bas (“-wich”)
• batta (“talker”)
• bolg- (“bulge”)
• branda- (“border, march”)
• kastar (“coin”)
• gad- (“stay”)
• galap (“game”)
• gamba (“he-goat”)
• gul (“valley”)
• hamanullas (“Lobelia”)
• hîm (“ale”)
• hloth (“cot, two-roomed dwelling”)
• hloth-ram (“cottager”)
• kali (“merry”)
• karnin (“cloven”)
• kast (“mathom”)
• kuduk (“hobbit, endonym for a halfling”)
• laban (“bag”)
• luthur (“fluff”)
• narag- (“dwarf”)
• nargian (“dwarves”)
• nas (“people”)
• neg (“end”)
• nîn (“water”)
• phârë (“speech”)
• phur- (“delve”)
• phûru (“delving”)
• pûta (“blower”)
• rân (“village, hillside dwellings”)
• ran (“home, village, ham[let]”)
• râph (“burr”)
• ras- (“horn”)
• raza (“stranger”)
• razan (“foreign”)
• razar (“small red apple”)
• ribadyan (“one celebrating a birthday”)
• sôval (“common”)
• sûza (“sphere of occupation; division of a realm”)
• tapuk (“Lagamorpha”)
• tarkil (“person of Númenórean descent”)
• tharantîn (“quarter, fourth part”)
• tharni (“quarter, farthing”)
• trah- (“hole-creeping”)
• trân (“smile”)
• tudnas (“guards”)
• tûka (“daring”)
• zara- (“old”)
• zîr (“wise”)
• zilib (“butter”)

External links

• Adûni on Wikipedia

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Languages

Tolkienian languages: Adûni · Black Speech · Quenya · Sindarin
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