Gandalf does literally mean "Staff Elf" after all.
(Or "Wand Elf", Gandr doesn't distinguish the size of the stick.)
(Well, the more accepted explanation these days is that it came from another meaning of Gandr meaning witchcraft or a witch's familiar. So Witch Elf or Witch's Elf Familiar, but Tolkien was going with Staff/Wand Elf when he picked the name.)
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