_ card. _ten. Q. cea. >> caen-, mimp. This gloss was rejected.
Sindarin
caen-
cardinal. ten
caen-
card
caen
cardinal. ten
cae
card
cae
cardinal. ten
can
card
neder
card
pae
cardinal. ten
The Sindarin word for “ten” in notes on numbers from the late 1960s (VT42/25; VT48/6). Its primitive form is ✶kwayam based on the root √kwaya originally referring to the whole (√KWA) set of ten fingers (VT42/24). In one place it had a longer variant pae(an) (VT48/21), which appeared in reduced form in the adjective paenui “tenth” (VT42/25).
Conceptual Development: The Gnomish Grammar of the 1910s had G. sath “10” of unclear derivation (GG/13). The Etymologies of the 1930s had N. caer “ten” derived from a variant √KAYAR of the root ᴹ√KAYAN “ten” (Ety/KAYAN), where the -r was borrowed from neder “nine” (EtyAC/KAYAN). In notes probably from the late 1950s Tolkien had caen- or cae “ten” (PE17/95), a form Tolkien probably used for some time given nelchaenen “thirtieth” from around 1950 (SD/129) and caenui “tenth” from the late 1960s (VT42/10), a rejected form of paenui appearing in the same 1960s notes on numbers mentioned above.
canad
card
eneg
card
_ card. _six. Q. enque, enc-. >> odog
er
card
leben
card
_ card. _five. Q. lepen, lempe. >> eneg
min
card
nel
card
_ card. _three. Q. nelde. Fcan, canad, neledh
odog
card
_ card. _seven. Q. otos. >> tolod
pae
cardinal. ten
paean Archaic
cardinal. ten
tad
card
_ card. _two. Q. atta. Fnel, neledh
tad
card
card. two. . This gloss was rejected.
tolod
card
_ card. _eight. Q. tolto. >> neder
pae
cardinal. ten
pae (the ”Noldorin” form caer listed in the Etymologies was apparently abandoned by Tolkien).
pae
ten
(the ”Noldorin” form caer listed in the Etymologies was apparently abandoned by Tolkien).
paenui
tenth
.
_ card. _ten. Q. cainen. >> cae, mimp. This gloss was rejected.