Eldamo : Early Primitive Elvish : KANA

ᴱ√KANA root. “*lead (metal)”

⚠️ᴱ√KANA root. “*lead (metal)”: ^ᴺ√KANU “*lead (metal)”

A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s whose derivatives all began with kanu- and had to do with metallic lead (QL/44). The root √KAN had various other meanings in Tolkien’s later writing, but I think it is possible to theorize the existence of a Neo-Eldarin root ᴺ√KANU “lead (metal)” in order to retain these early words.

References ✧ LT1A/Tilkal; QL/44

KANA “*lead (metal)” later had the sense ᴹ√KAN “dare”

Derivatives

> ᴱQ. kanu “lead” ✧ LT1A/Tilkal; QL/44
- ⇒ ᴱQ. kanuina “of lead” ✧ QL/44
- ⇒ ᴱQ. kanuva “leaden” ✧ LT1A/Tilkal; QL/44
- ⇒ ᴱQ. Tilkal ✧ LT1/100; LT1A/Tilkal