Eldamo : Gnomish : blant

G. blant adj. “flat, open, expansive; candid, blunt (of words)” (Category: Flat)

⚠️G. blant, adj. “flat, open, expansive; candid, blunt (of words)” (Category: Flat): ᴺS. ^plant “flat, open, expansive; candid, blunt (of words)”

An adjective in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s appearing as G. blant with the glosses “flat, open, expansive; candid, blunt (of words)” (GL/19), apparently based on (a variant of?) the early root ᴱ√PALA having to do with flat things (QL/71).

Neo-Sindarin: Since √PAL continued to be used for wide and flat things in Tolkien’s later writing, I would retain but adapt this word as ᴺS. plant “flat, open, expansive; candid, blunt (of words)” for purposes of Neo-Sindarin.

References ✧ GL/23; LT1A/Palúrien

Glosses

“flat, open, expansive, candid” ✧ LT1A/Palúrien
“flat, open, expansive, candid, blunt (of words)” ✧ GL/23

Element In

G. mavlant “*palm (of hand)”
G. blantos “sycamore” ✧ GL/23

Derivations

< ᴱ√PALA “flatness” ✧ LT1A/Palúrien

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√PALA > blant

[balant] > [blant] > [blanθ] > [blant]

✧ LT1A/Palúrien