קַנְתָּא, Y. Naz. I, 51ᵇ אורהיה … ק׳ דכולבא וכ׳ man is in the habit of saying, ‘the handle of an axe’; does any one say, ‘the axe of the handle’?, i.e. in making a vow one begins with the word שבועה, but does not place it at the end; Y. Ned. II, 36ᵈ top.—V. קַתָּא