Eldamo : Sindarin : cant

S. #cant n. “shape” (Category: Form, Shape)

S. #cant, n. “shape; [N.] outline” (Category: Form, Shape): G. benn² “shape, cut, fashion, shapeliness”; G. tôb(a) “shape, cut, fashion”

A word for “shape” appearing in its plural mutated form chaint in morchaint “dark-shapes” (VT42/9). In The Etymologies of the 1930s, N. cant had the gloss “outline” under the root ᴹ√KAT “shape” (Ety/KAT).

References ✧ VT42/9; WJ/192

Inflections

#chaint	liquid-mutation plural; c-mutation	“shapes”	✧ VT42/9
#gann	soft-mutation; c-mutation	“shape”	✧ WJ/192

Element In

ᴺS. ^dorgant “landscape, scene, *(lit.) land-shape”
ᴺS. !lhongant “allophone, surface sound, (lit.) sound-shape”
ᴺS. !pesgant “syntax, syntactical structure, (lit.) phrase-shape”
ᴺS. !pethgant “surface representation (of a word), (lit.) word-shape”
S. #morchant “shadow cast by light, (lit.) dark shape” ✧ VT42/9 (morchaint)
S. dorgannas “shapes of the lands, *geography” ✧ WJ/192

Derivations

< √KAT “shape”

N. cant n. “outline” (Category: Form, Shape)

See S. #cant for discussion.

Reference ✧ Ety/KAT ✧ “outline”

Derivations

< ᴹ√KAT “shape, make” ✧ Ety/KAT

Phonetic Developments

ᴹ√KAT > cant

[kanta] > [kantʰa] > [kanθa] > [kanθ] > [kant]

✧ Ety/KAT