Eldamo : Gnomish : fant

G. fant adj. “crooked, bent, bowed” (Category: Crooked)

⚠️G. fant, adj. “crooked, bent, bowed” (Category: Crooked): ᴺS. rhaen “crooked”

An adjective in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “crooked, bent, bowed” derive from primitive ᴱ✶fṇ̄t, though Tolkien did mark this derivation with a “?” (GL/34).

References ✧ GL/34-35

Glosses

“crooked, bent, bowed” ✧ GL/34

fant “crooked, bent, bowed” cp. ‽finta- ✧ GL/34
fintha- “to twist; deceive, cheat, take in” probably really connected with fant ✧ GL/35

Derivations

< ᴱ√FṆTṆ¹ “*crooked, twisted” ✧ GL/34 (‽fṇ̄t); GL/35 (fṇt)

Phonetic Developments

‽ᴱ√fṇ̄t > fant

[ɸṇ̄t] > [fṇ̄t] > [fant]

✧ GL/34