Chandlery comes from chandler + -y (or directly from Old French chandelerie), denoting the place or business of a chandler, ultimately from Latin candēla ('candle'). The historical trail runs through chandlerie in Old French and candēla in Latin. Morphologically, chandlery is transparent: it draws on chandler + -y (or directly from Old French chandelerie), denoting the place or business of a chandler, ultimately from Latin candēla ('candle'). Used as a noun, chandlery now means "a shop or store selling supplies, especially for ships", so the present definition can be read against the older forms and meanings. The same lexical family is also visible in related forms such as chandler and candle. The result is a borrowed or transmitted form whose modern spelling carries a compact record of its route into English.