Eldamo : Quenya : canwa²

Q. #canwa² n. “face” (Category: Face)

⚠️Q. #canwa², n. “face” (Category: Face): Q. cendelë “face, *visage”

A word appearing as kanwarya in one of the drafts of the Ambidexters Sentence, apparently a 3rd-sg possessive form meaning “*his face” (VT49/6, 21). Patrick Wynne suggested it might be derived from √KAT “shape” as in katmā > kanwa, patterned after Latin “faciēs” which also originally meant “shape”. It seems the n in this word was revised, but what the change was intended to be is unclear. Tolkien eventually revised this word to cendelë, so canwa was probably abandoned.

References ✧ VT49/21

Changes

kanwarya “*his face” >> kendele “face” ✧ VT49/21

Inflections

kanwarya

3rd-sg-poss

“*his face”

✧ VT49/21

Element In

Q. úsië, an cé mo quernë cendelë númenna, ve senya “on the contrary, for if one turned the face westward, as was usual” ✧ VT49/6

Derivations

< √KAT “shape”