Eldamo : Gnomish : sôn²

G. sôn² n. “craft, skill” (Category: Craft, Trade)

⚠️G. sôn², n. “craft, skill” (Category: Craft, Trade): S. curu “skill (of the hand), craft, magic; [N.] cunning”

A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “craft, skill”, related to G. sana- “know how to” (GL/67-68). Tolkien indicated it applied to “all senses” of the words, so presumably it applied to both physical and mental skills. Tolkien labeled this noun with a “²” to distinguish it from the adjective G. sôn¹ “clean”.

References ✧ GL/28, 67-68

Glosses

“craft” ✧ GL/67
“craft, skill” ✧ GL/68

sôn² “craft, skill” cp. sana- ✧ GL/68

Element In

G. curusôn “witchcraft” ✧ GL/28

Derivations

< ?ᴱ√SANA “*know”