canasta ("k")fraction "one fourth" (1/4). Also cansat, casta (VT48:11)
Quenya
ca(na)sta
fraction. one fourth, one fourth, *quarter
canasta
one fourth
casta
one fourth
casta (1) ("k")fraction "one fourth" (1/4). Also canasta, cansat (VT48:11)
cansat
one fourth
cansat ("k")fraction "one fourth" (1/4). Also canasta, casta (VT48:11)
cansat
fraction. one fourth
A word appearing as kanasta, kasta, or kansat “1/4” in notes on numbers from the late 1960s, a combination of canta “four” with the fractional suffix -sta.
Conceptual Development: The Early Qenya Grammar of the 1920s had ᴱQ. kantasto “quarter, [one] fourth” with adjective form ᴱQ. kantast(y)a (PE14/51, 84), combinations with the 1920s fractional suffix ᴱQ. -sto.