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-s

suffix. he, she, it

-së

suffix. he, she, it

-s(së)

suffix. he, she, it; him, her, it

Derivations

  • se “he, she, it, 3rd person singular pronoun” ✧ VT49/50

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
se/te > -s[-se] > [-s]✧ VT49/50

Variations

  • -s ✧ PE17/075; PE17/075; PE17/110; PE17/190; VT49/16; VT49/48; VT49/51
  • -re ✧ PE17/075
  • se ✧ PE22/161
  • -sse ✧ VT49/28
  • -se ✧ VT49/51
Quenya [PE17/075; PE17/110; PE17/190; PE22/161; VT49/16; VT49/28; VT49/48; VT49/51] Group: Eldamo. Published by

se

he, she, it

se (1) pron. "he, she, it" also object "him, her, it", 3rd person sg. Used "of living things including plants" (VT49:37; the corresponding inaimate pronoun is sa). The pronoun comes directly from se as the original stem-form (VT49:50). Stressed form , VT49:51, attested in object position in melin sé "I love him" (VT49:21). Ósë "with him/her", VT43:29; see ó-. Long dative/allative sena "[to/for] him" or "at him", VT49:14, allative senna "to him/her" (VT49:45, 46). Compare the reflexive pronoun insë *"himself, herself".

-ro

he

-ro pronominal ending "he", in antaváro, q.v. In Tolkiens later Quenya, the ending -s covers both "he", "she" and "it".

essë

he

essë (2) pron? "he" (and also "she, it"?), possible emphatic 3rd sg. emphatic pronoun, attested in the sentence essë úpa nas "he is dumb" (PE17:126)