shape, fashion
Quenya
canta
shape
cat-
verb. shape
venië
shape, cut
venië noun? "shape, cut" (LT1:254)
venwë
shape, cut
venwë noun? "shape, cut" (LT1:254)
canta
shape
cat-
verb. shape
shape, fashion
venië
shape, cut
venië noun? "shape, cut" (LT1:254)
venwë
shape, cut
venwë noun? "shape, cut" (LT1:254)
cant
noun. shape, shape; [N.] outline
Derivations
- √KAT “shape, shape, [ᴹ√] make”
Element in
fân
shape
_n._shape, with the added notion of light and whiteness. It was thus often used where we might use 'a vision' (of something beautiful and sublime). Q. fana-. Tolkien notes that "Yet being elvish, though it may be used of things remote, it has no implication either of uncertainty or unreality" (PE17:26). In the name Fanuilos of Elbereth, the Fân was the vision of majesty of Elbereth upon the mountain where she dwelt.
auth
noun. a dim shape, spectral or vague apparition
cant
shape
(noun) cant (i gant, o chant) (outline), pl. caint (i **chaint). The mutated pl. -chaint is attested as part of the compound morchaint**; see SHADOW.
cant
shape
(i gant, o chant) (outline), pl. caint (i chaint). The mutated pl. -chaint is attested as part of the compound morchaint; see SHADOW.
echad
shape
(verb) echad- (i echad, in echedir) (fashion, make), pa.t. echant (VT45:19)
echad
shape
(i echad, in echedir) (fashion, make), pa.t. echant (VT45:19)
kat
root. shape, shape, [ᴹ√] make
The root ᴹ√KAT “shape” first appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s with derivatives ᴹQ. kanta- “to shape”, ᴹQ. kanta “shaped”, and N. echad- “fashion, shape” (Ety/KAT). All these derivatives reappeared in Tolkien’s later writings, though Q. canta was more typically used as the noun “shape” (PE17/175; PE18/84, 90). The root appeared frequently in both the first and second version of Tengwesta Qenderinwa as an example of a biconsonantal root (TQ1: PE18/34, 46, 62; TQ2: PE18/84-85, 87, 89-90, 95).
Derivatives
- ✶aktō “artificer, artificer, [ᴹ✶] maker, wright” ✧ PE18/085; PE18/085; PE18/087
- ✶kanta “shape; fashion” ✧ PE18/089
- Q. canta “shape, framework, shape, framework, [ᴹQ.] frame; shaped”
- ✶kat- “to shape” ✧ PE18/095
- ✶katal “carving tool”
- Q. canta “shape, framework, shape, framework, [ᴹQ.] frame; shaped” ✧ PE18/090
- Q. cat- “to shape, fashion” ✧ PE18/090
- Q. canwa “face”
- S. cant “shape, shape; [N.] outline”
Element in
canta (2) _("k") noun"shape" (PE17:175), also used as adj._ "shaped", also as quasi-suffix -canta ("k") "-shaped" (KAT)