Quenya
tanta-
verb. to bounce, bound, rebound
Derivations
- ᴺ✶. TANTA “bounce”
Element in
- ᴺQ. tantara “bouncing, resilient”
Primitive elvish
tanta
root. bounce
Derivatives
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Early Primitive Elvish
tṇtṇ
root. *bounce
Derivatives
Element in
- Eq. tantilta- “[unglossed]”
tṇt-
verb. to bounce
Changes
tṇt-→ tṇt- “dance” ✧ PE14/058Derivations
- ᴱ√TṆTṆ “*bounce”
Derivatives
- Eq. tanta- “to bounce, bound, rebound” ✧ PE14/058
Early Quenya
tanta-
verb. to bounce, bound, rebound
Derivations
Element in
- Eq. tanta(ra) “bouncing, resilient” ✧ QL/093
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ✶tṇt- > tansie [tṇ̄tie-] > [tantie-] > [tantsie-] > [tansie-] ✧ PE14/058 ᴱ✶tṇt- > tantye [tṇ̄tje-] > [tantje-] ✧ PE14/058 ᴱ✶tṇt- > tante [tṇt-] > [tant-] ✧ PE14/058 ᴱ√TṆTṆ > tanta- [tṇta-] > [tanta-] ✧ QL/093 ᴱ√TṆTṆ > tante [tṇ̄te-] > [tante-] ✧ QL/093 Variations
- tanta- ✧ QL/093
A root appearing as ᴱ√TṆTṆ in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives like ᴱQ. tanta- “bounce, bound, rebound”, and ᴱQ. tantl “shuttle” (QL/93-94). It also had derivatives in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon like G. tanta “a dance” and G. tinta- “dance” (GL/69-70). The verb ᴱQ. tanta- “bounce” also appeared in the Early Qenya Grammar of the 1920s with the same derivation, along with other verbs like ᴱQ. tantilta- “hop” and ᴱQ. tantya- “set bouncing” (PE14/58). In much later writings from around 1968, Q. tanta- was given the gloss “to play a harp” (VT41/10).
Neo-Eldarin: I prefer 1930s ᴹ√ÑGAN(AD) as the basis for “harp” words, so I’d update early ᴱ√TṆTṆ to ᴺ√TANTA “bounce” to salvage early “bounce” words, but I’d use later ᴹ√LILT for “dance” words.