A word appearing in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “tale, number”, a combination of ᴹ√WO “together” and ᴹ√NOT “count, reckon” and a noun form of the verb N. gonod- “count up, reckon, sum up” (Ety/NOT). The stress of its primitive form must have been on the first syllable wŏ́nod-, since primitive stressed [wŏ] became [wa].

Conceptual Development: Early Noldorin word lists of the 1920s had ᴱN. noth or nath “number” from early primitive ᴱ✶notta (PE13/150-151). The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had {tant or tast “a number” >>} G. tathn {“token, sign, beacon” >>} “number” (GL/69), clearly based on the early root ᴱ√TAÞA “count” (QL/90).

Neo-Sindarin: Based on the related verb gonod-, I think gwanod is “number” in the sense “*count, reckoning, tally” as the total of a number of things. I would not, however, use gwanod for “tale” = “story” as there are other words for this sense such as narn or [N.] pent. Since I use gwanod “number” = “*count”, this means there is room for another word for “number” = “*numeral” for the actual numbers themselves. Elaran originally proposed using noth for “number”, and in an private Discord conversation we agreed to have noth be “number” in the sense “*numeral”.