Quenya 

-nen

suffix. instrumental

Derivations

  • -mē̆n “instrumental, with (which)” ✧ PE21/79
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menya

our

menya (pl. menyë is attested) possessive pron. "our", 1st person pl. exclusive independent possessive pronoun (VT43:19, 35). Evidently derived from the dative form men "for us" by adding the adjectival ending -ya. Compare ninya, q.v.

-ma

suffix. instrumental

Derivations

  • -mā “instrumental suffix”

Element in

  • Q. carma “tool, implement, means, weapon”
  • Q. corma “ring”
  • ᴺQ. hlarma “earpiece, receiver”
  • Q. lícuma “taper, candle” ✧ MC/223
  • Q. tamma “tool”
  • Q. yulma “cup, drinking vessel, drinking implement, goblet”

-lma

our

-lma pronominal ending "our", 1st person pl. exclusive (VT49:16), also attested (with the genitive ending -o that displaces final -a) in the word omentielmo "of our meeting" (nominative omentielma, PE17:58). Tolkien emended omentielmo to omentielvo in the Second Edition of LotR, reflecting a revision of the Quenya pronominal system (cf. VT49:38, 49, Letters:447). The cluster -lm- in the endings for inclusive "we/our" was altered to -lv- (VT43:14). In the revised system, -lma should apparently signify exclusive "our".

-mma

our

-mma "our", 1st person dual exlusive possessive ending: *"my and one others" (VT49:16). At an earlier conceptual phase, Tolkien apparently intended the same ending to be plural inclusive "our" (VT49:55, RS:324), cf. Mélamarimma "Our Home" (q.v.) In the latter word, Tolkien slips in i as a connecting vowel before this ending; elsewhere he used e, as in Átaremma "our Father" (see atar).

-ngwa

our

-ngwa "our", 1st person dual inclusive possessive pronominal ending: *"thy and my", corresponding to the ending -ngwë for dual inclusive "we" (VT49:16)

-lwa

our

-lwa, possessive pronominal ending, 1st person pl. inclusive "our" (VT49:16), later (in exilic Quenya) used in the form #-lva, genitive -lvo in omentielvo (see -lv-).

Sindarin 

-men

suffix. our

_1st pl. poss. suff. our.Maybe the excl. form of this suff. See also the paradigm of poss. suff. in PE17:46. Earlier -em_. >> -em, -main

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-enc

suffix. our

_1st pl. poss. suff. _our.Maybe the incl. form of this suff. See also the paradigm of poss. suff. in PE17:46.

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-main

suffix. our

_1st pl. poss. suff. our.Maybe the excl. form of this suff. See also the paradigm of poss. suff. in PE17:46. Earlier -em_. >> -em, -men

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min

adjective. our

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mín

adjective. our

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mín

pronoun. our

Changes

  • minvin ✧ VT44/24
  • mínvín ✧ VT44/28

Element in

Variations

  • min ✧ VT44/22 (min)
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vín

our

vín; see WE

vín

our

; see

Adûnaic

-ma

suffix. instrumental (draft)

The suffix used for the draft-instrumental case, translated “with” (SD/438). In a later conceptual stage, it became the ordinary prepositional suffix -mâ. Carl Hostetter and Partick Wynne suggested (VSH/33, AAD/19) that the deleted form -men on SD/311 is a separate prepositional suffix “on” related to ᴹQ. men “place”, but I believe it is a variant of the plural instrumental form -main.

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Primitive elvish

-mē̆n

suffix. instrumental, with (which)

Derivatives

  • Q. -nen “instrumental” ✧ PE21/79

Variations

  • ✧ PE21/79
  • mēn ✧ PE21/79
  • mene ✧ PE21/79 (mene)
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Qenya 

-ma

suffix. instrumental

Element in

  • ᴹQ. sanguma “press, *thing that presses” ✧ PE21/08
  • ᴹQ. tyelma “ending”

Middle Primitive Elvish

-mē̆n

suffix. instrumental, with (which)

Changes

  • -mē̆n-nēm “instrument, with which” ✧ PE21/68
  • -nē̆m-mē̆n “instrumental, with” ✧ PE21/68

Variations

  • mē̆n ✧ PE21/65
  • -nēm ✧ PE21/68
  • -nē̆m ✧ PE21/68 (-nē̆m)
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