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For 'staff' early Qenya has vandl, if you wanted to accept such a word anyway.
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So once again Tolkien gets caught borrowing words!
Vandl is pretty clearly English
wand, cognate with Norse gandr (by g > w mutation).
One also wonders about Ger.
wenden (to proceed, go), OE
wandan (to turn, meander), still found in English
wend,
wander, and the borrowed past-tense
went. Both words apparently descend from the Pr. Germ. root
*wend- (the old sense was bending, suppleness, thus a supple stick- hence the use of such in wattlework gave rise to Mod. Ger.
Wand "wall.")