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).

calar

noun. lamp

n. lamp. >> calardan

calar

noun. (portable) lamp

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)

calardan

noun. lampwright

celair

adjective. brilliant

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.

calardan

lampwright

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

Calarind

noun. Lamp of thought

calardan

lampwright

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

celair

brilliant

celair (lenited gelair; no distinct pl. form)

celair

brilliant

(lenited gelair; no distinct pl. form)