Appendix:Sindarin/canad

Sindarin

Sindarin numbers ^(edit)

	40
[a], [b] ←  3	ô 4	5  →
Cardinal: canad     Ordinal: canthui     Fractional: canath

Etymology

Modified from canath in Tolkien’s earlier conception of the language (‘Noldorin’), itself modified from yet earlier cant in ‘Gnomish’. Diegetically explained as inherited from Primitive Elvish *kanatā, and so cognate to Quenya canta and Telerin canat.

Numeral

canad • z5#2#

1. four

References

• Paul Strack (2008–2023) “canad”, in Eldamo – An Elvish Lexicon‎^[1]