ranta

part

#ranta noun "part". Pl. rantali attested. (PE14:117)

cú

arch, crescent

cú ("k")noun "arch, crescent" (KU3); "crescent Moon" (LT1:271; the long vowel was denoted by a circumflex rather than an accent in the early "Qenya" lexicon). In Sindarin, the same word can be used for a "bow" as used to shoot arrows (but possibly this is only quinga in Quenya).

ranta

noun. course

Cognates

• S. rant “course, water-channel; lode, course, water-channel; lode, [N.] vein”

Derivations

• ✶rantā “tracks and trails of travellers or explorers that had become habitual and could be followed by others”
  • √RAT “to find a way” ✧ NM/363