Early Noldorin
pant
noun. money
pant
noun. fear
gost
noun. fear
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A word appearing as ᴱN. pant “money” in the Early Noldorin Grammar of the 1920s (PE13/124), possibly related to the early root ᴱ√PANA “arrange” (QL/72). Tolkien indicated this noun was inherently plural.
Neo-Sindarin: Since √PAN “arrange” survived in Tolkien’s later writings, I would retain ᴺS. pant “money”, perhaps originally referring to a method for arranging the exchange of goods.