calmatan

lampwright

calmatan noun "lampwright" (PE17:96)

calmatan

noun. lampwright

A word for “lampwright”, a combination of calma “lamp” and tamo (-tan) “builder”, equivalent to S. calardan (PE17/96).

Cognates

• S. calardan “lampwright” ✧ PE17/096

Elements

Word	Gloss
calma	“lamp, (device for shining) light, lamp, (device for shining) light, [ᴱQ.] candle; (day)light”
tamo	“smith, builder”

calardan

noun. lampwright

calardan

lampwright

pl1. celerdain n. lampwright. Q. calmatan. >> calar

calardan

noun. lampwright

A word for a “lampwright” (PE17/96; RC/523), appearing in its plural form in the name Rath Celerdain “Lampwrights’ Street” (LotR/768).

Conceptual Development: In Lord of the Rings drafts of the 1940s it appeared in the mutated plural forms chalardain and chelerdain (WR/287, 388)

Cognates

• Q. calmatan “lampwright” ✧ PE17/096

Element in

• S. Rath Celerdain “Lampwrights’ Street” ✧ PE17/096; RC/523

Elements

Word	Gloss
calar	“(portable) lamp”
tân	“builder, smith, wright, artificer”

calardan

lampwright

calardan (i galardan, o chalardan), pl. celerdain (i chelerdain)

calardan

lampwright

(i galardan, o chalardan), pl. celerdain (i chelerdain)****

calardan

noun. lampwright

Element in

• N. Rath a Chelerdain “Street of the Lampwrights” ✧ WR/287; WR/388