Quettaparma Quenyallo

canta- (3) an undefined verb (?) cited in PE17:113. See canya- #2.

cantëa ("k") ordinal "fourth" (VT42:25)

[cantil ("k") noun "fourth finger" (VT47:26)]

canuva ("k") "leaden" (LT1:268; if this "Qenya" word is used in a LotR-style Quenya context, it must not be confused with the future tense of can-)

canwa (1) noun "announcement, order" (PM:362)

#canwa (2) noun “face”, isolated from canwarya (“k”) *”his face”, evidently an ephemeral form Tolkien abandoned in favour of cendelë, q.v. (VT49:21; see VT49:34 regarding uncertainties as to the manuscript reading)

*canwë, see #caw-

canya (1) ("k") adj. "bold" (KAN).

canya- (2) verb (pa.t. canyanë given), undefined form occurring in PE17:113 (together with the seeming variant canta-). See *can- #2 for a conjecture regarding its meaning.

cap- (“k”) vb. “jump, leap”, pa.t. campë (QL:45, PE16:134)

capta- (“k”) vb. “startle”, pa.t. cápë (QL:45)

capalinda ("k") noun "spring of water" (LT1:257; ehtelë may be preferred in LotR-style Quenya)

cár (cas-) ("k") noun "head" (KAS). The given stem-form appears doubtful within the phonological framework of LotR-style Quenya. Probably we should read cas with stem car- (PE14:69 indeed reads “kas ‘head’, pl. kari”, and VT49:17 quotes the sg. “kas” from a post-LotR source). Compare other forms found in late sources: hlas “ear” with stem hlar- (PE17:62) and olos “dream”, pl. olori (UT:396). In Tolkien’s early “Qenya”, post-vocalic -s became -r at the end of words but was preserved when another vowel followed. His later scheme either lets -r appear in both positions, or reverses the scenario altogether (hence olos, olor-). It would seem that the forms cár, cas- were distractedly carried over into the Etymologies from the Qenya Lexicon (kar, kas-, QL:45) even though they presuppose an earlier version of the phonology. An apparent variant form in late material, cára from earlier cáza (“k”), however fits the later phonology since intervocalic s would become z > r (PE17:188).