Black Speech Words
- agh conj. “and”
- ash num. card. “one”
- -at suf. “verb ending (like a participle)”
- bagronk n. “cesspool; torture chamber”
- búbhosh adj. and n. “great; dung-heap, muck heap”
- búrz adj. “dark”
- burzum n. “darkness”
- durb- v. “constrain, force, dominate”
- ghâsh n. “fire”
- gimb- v. “to seek out, to discover”
- glob n. “fool; filth”
- Golug n. “Noldor”
- goth n. “lord or master”
- gûl suf. “phantom, shadow of dark magic, wraith; †black arts, sorcery”
- gûldur n. “sorcery”
- -hai suf. “folk”
- ishi prep. “in, inside”
- krimp- v. “to tie, to bind”
- lûg n. “fortress, lock-up, prison”
- nazg n. “ring”
- Nazgûl n. “Ring-wraith”
- Oghor-hai n. “Wose-folk”
- olog n. “Troll”
- Olog-hai n. “Troll-folk”
- pushdug n. and adj. “dungfilth; stinking”
- sha prep. “with”
- sharkû n. “old man”
- skai interj. “interject[ion] of contempt”
- snaga n. “slave”
- tark n. “man of Gondor”
- thrak- v. “to bring by force, to hale, to drag”
- u prep. “to”
- -ûk suf. “the whole, all”
- -ul suf. “3rd-person-pl-object, them”
- -um article. “particularizing suffix”
- uruk n. “Orc”
- Uruk-hai n. “Orc-folk”