canath
noun. "quarter", silver coin used in Gondor, the fourth part of a "mirian"
canath
noun. quarter, quarter, *one fourth
canad
cardinal. four
canad
cardinal. four
The Sindarin word for “four” based on the root √KANAT of the same meaning (PE17/95; VT42/24; VT48/6; Ety/KÁNAT).
Conceptual Development: The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had G. cant “four” (GL/25). Some rough notes from the 1960s had a variant form cened “four”, but this seems to have been a ephemeral concept according to Patrick Wynne (VT47/41 note #69).
canath
farthing
canath (i ganath, o chanath) (fourth part), pl. cenaith (i chenaith). As coin, the fourth part of a mirian. (PM:45)
canath
fourth part
canath (i ganath, o chanath) (farthing), pl. cenaith (i chenaith). As coin, the fourth part of the more valuable coin called mirian. (PM:45)
canath
fourth part
canath (i ganath, o chanath) (farthing), pl. cenaith (i chenaith). As coin, the fourth part of a mirian. (PM:45)
canath
farthing
(i ganath, o chanath) (fourth part), pl. cenaith (i chenaith). As coin, the fourth part of a mirian. (PM:45)
canath
fourth part
(i ganath, o chanath) (farthing), pl. cenaith (i chenaith). As coin, the fourth part of the more valuable coin called mirian. (PM:45)
canad
cardinal. four
canad;
canad
four
;
cened
ordinal. four
cannui
fourth
. The reading in VT42:25 is "canthui", but the phonology presupposed in LotR would require ✱cannui. David Salo regards "canthui" as a dialectal form.
A Sindarin word for a “quarter” [one fourth], also used as the name of a coin worth one fourth of a mirian (PM/45). The suffix -(a)th is likely related to the Quenya fractional suffix -sta; compare Q. canasta “one fourth”.