calar

noun. (portable) lamp

calar

noun. lamp

n. lamp. >> calardan

calar

noun. (portable) lamp

A noun for a “(portable) lamp” in the word calardan “lampwright” (PE17/96; RC/523), which appear as a plural in the name Rath Celerdain “Lampwrights’ Street” (LotR/768).

Conceptual Development: The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had G. dant “lamp”, but this word was deleted (GL/29).

Cognates

• Q. calar “lamp”
• T. calar “lamp”

Derivations

• √KAL “light; shine, be bright, light; shine, be bright, [ᴱ√] shine golden”

Element in

• S. calardan “lampwright” ✧ PE17/096; RC/523

calar

lamp

#calar (i galar, o chalar), pl. celair (i chelair). Isolated from the pl. compound celerdain "lampwrights", sg. *calardan.

calar

lamp

(i galar, o chalar), pl. celair (i chelair). Isolated from the pl. compound celerdain "lampwrights", sg. ✱calardan.