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Ercambo

one-hand man

Ercambo ("k") masc. name "one-hand Man" (VT47:7), the equivalent of Sindarin Erchamon, Erchamion as a title of Beren

ercambo

masculine name. Onehand(ed), One-hand Man

The Quenya equivalent of S. Erchamion “One-handed” (VT47/8). It is a compound of er “one” and camba “(cupped) hand”, masculinized by changing the final letter to -o.

Conceptual Development: Tolkien rarely gave a Quenya equivalent for this name, but an early Qenya translation ᴱQ. Elmavoite appeared in the Lost Tales (LT2/34), the cognate of the Gnomish name G. Ermabwed. Its final element is clearly mavoite “having hands” (LT2A/Ermabwed, QL/57), and its initial element is probably er “one” (PE14/47), which according to the Gnomish Lexicon from the 1910s could appear as el- in its prefixal form (GL/32).

In the Early Qenya Grammar from the 1920s, Tolkien wrote erumaite “one handed” (PE14/51, 84; PE16/140), but whether this was a name or simply an ordinary adjective is unclear.

Cognates

  • S. Erchamion “One-handed” ✧ PE21/86; VT47/07

Elements

WordGloss
er“one, alone, one, alone; [ᴱQ.] only, a single”
camba“(cupped) hand, hollow of the hand”

Variations

  • Erkambo ✧ VT47/07
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