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Early Primitive Elvish

kanga

root. weave

Early Primitive Elvish Group: Eldamo. Published by

kaŋa

root. weave, twine

A root appearing in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s as ᴱ√KANGA “weave” with various derivatives of similar meaning (QL/45), but the actual root probably had medial Ŋ as with ᴱ√KAŊA “twine” appearing later in that same document (QL/98). There are a number of probably-related forms in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon starting with either cang- or cing-, such as G. cang “tangled”, G. cingra “plaited”, and G. cing(win) “spider” (GL/25-26). There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing, but I think it is worth positing a Neo-Eldarin root ᴺ√KANGA “tangle” to salvage various Gnomish words having to do with tangles and confusion.

Derivatives

  • Eq. kanga- “to weave, spin” ✧ QL/045
  • Eq. kangaris “spider” ✧ QL/045
  • G. cang “tangled, confused, mixed up, awry; tangle, confusion, mêllay”
  • G. cinga- “to go wrong, get tangled”
  • G. cing(win) “spider”

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Variations

  • KANGA ✧ QL/045
Early Primitive Elvish [QL/045; QL/098] Group: Eldamo. Published by