Hobbit-speech (H.), also known as Hobbitish or Hobbitic (W."Kuduk") was the most archaic form of Hobbit-language, being a dialect of Northern Mannish that was spoken by Hobbits before they crossed the Misty Mountains. Hobbit-speech contained some terms from Éothéodan and Dunael. Even after the Hobbits crossed, however, a close variant of Hobbit-speech was still spoken by the Bree-hobbits.
Shire-speech was a variant of Hobbit-speech which was combined with Westron, the common Speech, and spoken by the Shire-folk, the Hobbits who settled in the Shire, and to some degree, the Bucklanders and the Bree-hobbits (although Bree-Hobbit-speech contained some loanwords from old Breeish unknown to Shire-speech).
The more Dunael influenced variants were Breeish-Hobbit-speech, Old Marish-speech and it's descendant Bucklandish. There was also a variant spoken by the Stoors who migrated back across the Misty Mountains.
Hobbit-speech words[]
- Atterkopp - Spider
- bams - beans
- boring - a burrowing
- borough - Burg, dwelling or dwellings within a fortified enclosure
- bottle - a large dwelling
- bottom - valley
- Bralda - Heady
- branda - borderland
- brere - briar
- Brocken - a Badger
- Budge - bulged or fat
- bury - fortified enclosure, burg or town
- byre - a farmstead
- Cleeve - a cliff or Hill
- copp - Hill
- cord - a pile of lumber or timber
- Crick - Hill
- Delf - delving or burrow
- don - down, Hill
- Dwale - a dull person; the Deadly Nightshade
- fallow - pale or yellowish
- frog - marshy
- furlang - a field or grange
- Gamba - a Buck or Goat
- Gentle-Hobbit - a Hobbitish Gentry
- Gnoll - a Forest-Troll
- Goblin - Orc
- Gross - a measurement equal to 144 of something (a dozen dozens)
- Hallow - angle, corner, secluded place, or land by a river
- Har - hairy
- hard - stony, rocky
- Hay - hedge
- Hern - a corner or area of settled Farmland
- hîm - Ale
- Hobbit - Halfling, Hole-builder
- Hobbiting - a Hobbit-Child not yet in his tweens
- Hollow - a small depression in the ground
- holm - islet; hill; holly-tree
- hop - recess, retreat
- Knob - a braggy or strange person
- laban - bag
- Listle - small
- Mathom - an item considered relatively useless but still worthy enough to be kept
- Michel -large, much
- no - new
- nuncle - a persons uncle
- Oliphaunt - gigantic beast, Mûmak
- pin - a Pine
- pinc - a finch or sparrow
- Rushock - rushy place
- Rushy - a small islet
- scar - a rocky cliff; boundry
- Shirriff - a Sheriff or Constable
- Smial - a hobbit-hole
- Stan - Stone
- Stock - a place, an outlying farm or hamlet
- Stoor - large, strong
- Swerting - a Black Man from the south, a Haradron
- Taters - a root similar to a Potato
- Thain - the ruler of the Shire after the loss of Arvedui
- Tigh - rope
- Tweens - the youth of a Hobbit, between his 20th and 33rd lifeyear
- Whit - white
- windle -spindle, reel
- withy - Willow
- Yale - a fertile upland
- Zara - Old
Family Names[]
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