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qnàt.

to (make/produce) smoke

Usage notes

This verb is not used for smoking tobacco any more – the modern term for that is the related qentà..

Etymology

< NLem qent‑a ‘smoke (also tobacco)’
< LMLem, MLem qent‑a ‘smoke (also herbs)’
< OLem thent‑ ‘to smoke (also herbs)’
< PLem *sent‑ ‘to smoke’, Narten present of
< PIE *sen‑dʰh₁‑ ‘secrete’, compound of
PIE *sen ‘aside, away’
—and—
PIE *dʰeh₁‑ ‘put, make’

doublet of qentà.

Cognates

Eng cinder, Gk ὄνθος ‘dung’