Old Elvish

English

Proper noun

Old Elvish

  1. (fantasy) The ancestor language of Elvish. [20th c.]
    • 1983, The Current Digest of the Soviet Press‎[1], volume 35, numbers 14–26, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, page 14:
      Tolkien has even created an Old Elvish language, in which some of the verse that his characters recite is written.
    • 2010 January 26, Mark Del Franco, Unperfect Souls‎[2], Penguin, →ISBN, page 261:
      She closed her eyes and chanted in Old Elvish, the sounds harsh to the modern ear, but in Eorla’s voice, it sounded both soft and mournful.
    • 2012 December 31, Barb Hendee, J.C. Hendee, “fourteen”, in The Dog in the Dark‎[3], Penguin, →ISBN, page 265:
      Leesil had made the hide with Belaskian letters and short common words to replace the one Wynn had written up in the Old Elvish of the an’Cróan.
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