1) ?tân (i dân, o thân), only attested as -dan or -than as the final element of compounds, e.g. Círdan ”Ship-maker”). Construct tan, pl. tain (i thain), 2)
Sindarin
tân
noun. builder, smith, wright, artificer
tân
maker
tân
maker
(i dân, o thân), only attested as -dan or -than as the final element of compounds, e.g. Círdan ”Ship-maker”). Construct tan, pl. tain (i thain)
ceredir
maker
ceredir (i geredir, o cheredir) (doer), no distinct pl. form except with article (i cheredir)
ceredir
maker
(i geredir, o cheredir) (doer), no distinct pl. form except with article (i cheredir)
círdan
shipbuilder
(i gírdan, o chírdan) (shipwright), pl. círdain (i chírdain)
thavron
builder
thavron (wright, carpenter), pl. thevryn, coll. pl. thavronnath.
thavron
builder
(wright, carpenter), pl. thevryn, coll. pl. thavronnath.
An element in various words with senses like “builder, smith, wright, artificer”. N. tân was also an element in a number of words in The Etymologies of the 1930s, based on the root ᴹ√TAN “make, fashion” (Ety/KIR, TAN). In notes from the late 1960s, Tolkien revised the primitive root to √TAM “construct”, but he said that “in Sindarin the base appeared mostly in form √TAN owing to contact with √PAN ‘arrange, set in order’ (PE17/108)”. It is not clear whether the element -tan can be used as independent word, but if it can then it would have the form tân.