Eldamo : Gnomish : mathron

G. mathron n. “herd, herdsman, shepherd” (Category: Herdsman)

⚠️G. mathron, n. “herd, herdsman, shepherd” (Category: Herdsman): ᴺS. !mavron “shepherd, herdsman”; ᴺS. ^nethor “herd, flock”

A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “herd, herdsman, shepherd”, an agental form of G. moth “sheep”, with a variant mastir which is probably the feminine form “*shepherdess” (GL/56). The gloss “herd” is reinforced by the fact that Tolkien equated it to G. nethron “herd” (GL/60).

References ✧ GL/56, 60

Glosses

“herd, herdsman, shepherd” ✧ GL/56

mastir = mathron “herd, herdsman, shepherd” ✧ GL/56
nethron “herd” = mathron ✧ GL/60

Elements

moth	“sheep”
#-(r)on	“agental suffix”