-il
suffix. feminine suffix
Element in
- S. brethil “princess, (lit.) queen-daughter”
- S. híril “lady, lady; [G.] princess, †queen” ✧ SA/heru
- ᴺS. regil “mare”
- S. Thuringwethil “Woman of Secret Shadow”
-s
suffix. dative (draft)
The suffix used for the draft-dative case (SD/438). It is attested in the Lament of Akallabêth (first draft) in a plural form: avalōi-si “Powers on” (SD/311). In a later conceptual stage, it may have become the ordinary prepositional suffix -zê “at”.
Variations
- -s/-se ✧ SD/438
-î
suffix. feminine suffix
A suffix used to form feminine nouns from common or masculine nouns (SD/435). Another common variant was -ê (SD/438).
Variations
- -ī ✧ SD/435
-êth
suffix. feminine suffix
A feminine suffix appearing in several names, as suggested by Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynn (AAD/11). On SD/427, Tolkien said that the affix -th was often found in feminine forms.
Element in
- Ad. Akallabêth “Downfallen”
- Ad. Arminalêth “*Royal Heaven (City)”
-iel
suffix. feminine suffix
Derivatives
Element in
- ✶rigelle “woman bearing a garland” ✧ NM/349; NM/353
- Q. Manyel ✧ PE17/190
- S. Gilthoniel “Star-kindler” ✧ MR/388
- S. Meiniel ✧ PE17/190
Variations
- iel ✧ MR/388
- -el ✧ NM/349; NM/353
- -elle ✧ NM/349; NM/353
- r/l-iē̆l ✧ PE17/190 (r/l-iē̆l)
-il
suffix. feminine suffix
-(r)il
suffix. feminine suffix
Element in
Variations
- -il ✧ Ety/BARÁD (-il); Ety/BERÉTH
- -ril ✧ Ety/MEL (-ril); Ety/SLIG (-ril)
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-th
suffix. feminine suffix
A (primitive?) feminine suffix used in the formation of mîth “baby girl” from the root ✶Ad. √MIYI (SD/427). Tolkien stated that that th was one of the “favoured” feminine consonants (SD/427).
Element in
- Ad. mîth “baby girl, maid-child, little girl” ✧ SD/427
-il Reconstructed
suffix. feminine suffix
Apparently a feminine suffix attested in the name Thuringwethil “(Woman of) Secret Shadow” (Ety/THUR) and the noun tóril “queen” (Ety/TĀ).
Cognates
- N. -iel “daughter; feminine suffix”
Element in
- Ilk. tóril “queen” ✧ Ety/TĀ
- Ilk. Thuringwethil “(Woman of) Secret Shadow” ✧ Ety/THUR
-si
suffix. feminine suffix
A feminine suffix in several words from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s such as ᴱQ. felusi “witch” (QL/38) and ᴱQ. varitsi “foreigner (fem.)” (QL/100).
Element in
Variations
- -tsi ✧ QL/100 (-tsi)
-tsi
suffix. feminine suffix
-ni
suffix. feminine suffix
A common feminine suffix in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s in words like varyani “foreigner (fem.)”, probably a suffixal form of ᴱQ. nî “woman” (GL/60) and often paired with its masculine equivalent ᴱQ. -nu.
Element in
Elements
Word Gloss nî “woman”
-sse
suffix. feminine suffix
Element in
Variations
- -sse ✧ QL/040 (-sse); QL/055 (-sse)
A fairly common feminine suffix appearing as -il in Sindarin, either formed on its own or as a variant of the feminine suffix -iel. This suffix was also common Noldorin words in The Etymologies of the 1930s, along with an alternate form -ril that seems to be a feminine agental suffix, the equivalent of masculine -(r)on, seen in pairs like N. melethril/melethron “lover” and N. odhril/odhron “parent” (Ety/MEL, ONO). The -il suffix and its -ril variant are seen all the way back in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s in pairs like G. gwadhril/gwadhron “inhabitant” (GL/47) and G. ainil/ainos “god”, female and male respectively (GL/18). So it seems this feminine suffix was well established in Tolkien’s mind.