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GEORGE: “Earth-worker”, from Greek gaia, ge “earth” + the base of ergon “work”. Kemen is Quenya for “earth” (KEM), but what is “worker”? Mól “slave, thrall” (MÔ) seems to be too harsh a word. However, we can add an agentive suffix to the verb móta- “labour, toil” given under the same stem. The suffix -r is used on another verb ending in -ta (envinyatar “renewer” being derived from the verb *envinyata- “renew” - see Vinyar Tengwar #34 p. 11). Combining kemen “earth” and *mótar “worker” we get Kememmótar (with the same assimilation of nm to mm as we observe in elen + makil = Elemmakil *”Star-sword” in UT:45). Kememmótar would probably become Kemmótar by haplology. (See Rhona Beare’s article about this phenomenon in TyTy #3. I’m sorry, Rhona, but I couldn’t find the etymology of your name anywhere.)