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ᴺS. !maenor n. “craftsman” (Category: Artisan, Craftsman)

ᴺS. !maenor, n. “craftsman” [created by Paul Strack] (Category: Artisan, Craftsman)

A neologism coined by Paul Strack in 2018 specifically for Eldamo, a combination of [N.] maen “skilled” and the agental suffix -or. It is for someone of physical skills, as opposed to curunír for one of mental prowess.

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Elements

N. maen “skilled, clever”
S. #-or “agental suffix”

G. finweg n. “craftsman, man of skill” (Category: Artisan, Craftsman)

A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “craftsman, man of skill”, a combination of G. fim “clever, right hand” and the masculine suffix G. -weg (GL/35), so probably originally meaning something like “*handyman”.

References ✧ GL/35; LT1A/Finwë

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fim “clever, right hand” ✧ GL/35; LT1A/Finwë
-weg “masculine suffix” ✧ LT1A/Finwë