canta

shape

canta (2) _("k") noun"shape" (PE17:175), also used as adj._ "shaped", also as quasi-suffix -canta ("k") "-shaped" (KAT)

cat-

verb. shape

shape, fashion

venië

shape, cut

venië noun? "shape, cut" (LT1:254)

venwë

shape, cut

venwë noun? "shape, cut" (LT1:254)

finta-

to make, finish off, or decorate a thing with delicate work

finta- (1) vb. "to make, finish off, or decorate a thing with delicate work" (PE17:17)

echant

verb. Im Narvi hain ~echant~ 'I Narvi ~made~ them'

v. pa.t. of echad- 'shaped out', shaped and made. Im Narvi hain echant 'I Narvi made them'. edagant was originally a S. pa.t. form which was deleted (together with pa.t. edagad). >> echad-

cant

noun. shape, shape; [N.] outline

Derivations

• √KAT “shape, shape, [ᴹ√] make”

Element in

• S. cannas “[abstract] shape”
• ᴺS. dorgant “landscape, scene, *(lit.) land-shape”
• S. morchant “shadow cast by light, (lit.) dark shape” ✧ VT42/09

echad-

verb. to form, make, shape, cut out; (lit.) to shape out, to form, make, shape, cut out, [N.] fashion; [S.] (lit.) to shape out

Cognates

• ᴺQ. eccat- “to fashion, make”

Derivations

• ✶etkat- “to form, (lit.) out-shape, to form, [ᴹ✶] fashion, [✶] (lit.) out-shape” ✧ PE17/042; PE17/042

Element in

• S. im Elrond echanthel ✧ VT47/38
• S. im Narvi hain echant “I, Narvi, made them” ✧ LotR/0305; PE17/042

Elements

Word	Gloss
ed	“out, out of, out, out of, [N.] forth”
KAT	“shape, shape, [ᴹ√] make”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶et-kantē > echant	[etkantē] > [ekkantē] > [ekkante] > [ekkantʰe] > [ekkʰantʰe] > [ekkʰanθe] > [exxanθe] > [exxanθ] > [exxant] > [exant]	✧ PE17/042
✶et-kat- > echad-	[etkat-] > [ekkat-] > [ekkʰat-] > [exxat-] > [exxad-] > [exad-]	✧ PE17/042

auth

noun. a dim shape, spectral or vague apparition

fân

shape

_n._shape, with the added notion of light and whiteness. It was thus often used where we might use 'a vision' (of something beautiful and sublime). Q. fana-. Tolkien notes that "Yet being elvish, though it may be used of things remote, it has no implication either of uncertainty or unreality" (PE17:26). In the name Fanuilos of Elbereth, the Fân was the vision of majesty of Elbereth upon the mountain where she dwelt.

cant

shape

(noun) cant (i gant, o chant) (outline), pl. caint (i **chaint). The mutated pl. -chaint is attested as part of the compound morchaint**; see SHADOW.

cant

shape

(i gant, o chant) (outline), pl. caint (i chaint). The mutated pl. -chaint is attested as part of the compound morchaint; see SHADOW.

echad

shape

(verb) echad- (i echad, in echedir) (fashion, make), pa.t. echant (VT45:19)

echad

shape

(i echad, in echedir) (fashion, make), pa.t. echant (VT45:19)

echad

make

(i echad, in echedir) (fashion, shape), pa.t. echant (VT45:19)

echad

fashion

(verb) echad- (i echad, in echedir) (make, shape), pa.t. echant (VT45:19)

echad

fashion

(i echad, in echedir) (make, shape), pa.t. echant (VT45:19)

car

make

(i gâr, i cherir), pa.t. agor (do, build) (WJ:415)

cad-

z2# verb. to shape; mold

Derived from the primitive root '√KAT' found in compound of 'etkat-': Out-Shape (later becoming Sindarin Echad: To Fashion). Cognate of Quenya Cat-.

kat

root. shape, shape, [ᴹ√] make

The root ᴹ√KAT “shape” first appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s with derivatives ᴹQ. kanta- “to shape”, ᴹQ. kanta “shaped”, and N. echad- “fashion, shape” (Ety/KAT). All these derivatives reappeared in Tolkien’s later writings, though Q. canta was more typically used as the noun “shape” (PE17/175; PE18/84, 90). The root appeared frequently in both the first and second version of Tengwesta Qenderinwa as an example of a biconsonantal root (TQ1: PE18/34, 46, 62; TQ2: PE18/84-85, 87, 89-90, 95).

Derivatives

• ✶aktō “artificer, artificer, [ᴹ✶] maker, wright” ✧ PE18/085; PE18/085; PE18/087
  • ᴺQ. ahto “wright, maker”
  • Q. ahto “wright, maker” ✧ PE18/085
• ✶kanta “shape; fashion” ✧ PE18/089
  • Q. canta “shape, framework, shape, framework, [ᴹQ.] frame; shaped”
• ✶kat- “to shape” ✧ PE18/095
• ✶katal “carving tool”
• Q. canta “shape, framework, shape, framework, [ᴹQ.] frame; shaped” ✧ PE18/090
• Q. cat- “to shape, fashion” ✧ PE18/090
• Q. canwa “face”
• S. cant “shape, shape; [N.] outline”

Element in

• ᴺQ. cacátu- “to design, shape or fashion slowly”
• S. echad- “to form, make, shape, cut out; (lit.) to shape out, to form, make, shape, cut out, [N.] fashion; [S.] (lit.) to shape out”

echad-

verb. to fashion, make

echad-

verb. to fashion, shape; make

Derivations

• ᴹ✶etkat- “to fashion” ✧ Ety/KAT

Element in

• N. im Narvi hain echant “I Narvi made them” ✧ TI/182

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴹ✶et-kat > echedi	[etkat-] > [ekkat-] > [ekkʰat-] > [exxat-] > [exxad-] > [exad-]	✧ Ety/KAT

Variations

• echedi ✧ EtyAC/KAT