S. #tân n. “builder, smith, wright, artificer” (Category: Artisan, Craftsman)
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.
References ✧ PE17/27
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| #dan | soft-mutation; t-mutation | “builder” | ✧ PE17/27 |
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N. #tân n. “builder, smith” (Category: Artisan, Craftsman)
References ✧ Ety/KIR
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| #dan | soft-mutation; t-mutation | “builder” | ✧ Ety/KIR |
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| ᴹ√TAN > #dan | [tan] > [tān] | ✧ Ety/KIR |