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.