Q. canta¹ num. card. “four” (Category: Cardinal Number)
The Quenya word for “four” derived from the root √KANAT of the same meaning (PE17/95; VT42/24; VT48/6; Ety/KÁNAT).
Conceptual Development: The word ᴱQ. kanta “four” dates all the way back to the Early Qenya Grammar (EQG) of the 1920s (PE14/49, 82), but in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s the word for “four” was ᴱQ. nelde (QL/65), which in Tolkien’s later writings meant “three”.
References ✧ PE17/95; VT42/24; VT48/6
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| ✶kanatā > kanta | [kanatā] > [kantā] > [kanta] | ✧ VT42/24 |
ᴹQ. kanta¹ num. card. “four” (Category: Cardinal Number)
References ✧ Ety/KÁNAT; EtyAC/KÁNAT
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| kan- | suffix | ✧ Ety/KÁNAT |
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| ᴹ√KÁNAT > kanta | [kanata] > [kanta] | ✧ Ety/KÁNAT |
ᴱQ. kanta num. card. “four” (Category: Cardinal Number)
References ✧ PE14/49, 82; PE16/142
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