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.
Early Quenya
-sse
suffix. feminine suffix
Element in
Variations
- -sse ✧ QL/040 (-sse); QL/055 (-sse)
-sse
suffix. abstract noun
Element in
- Eq. aiqasse “precipice” ✧ QL/029
- Eq. karkasse “row of spikes or teeth” ✧ QL/048
- Eq. eresse “alone, by oneself, singly, only; once” ✧ QL/036
- Eq. hontosse “a loud sneeze” ✧ QL/041
- Eq. kondasse “dragon’s lair” ✧ PE13/162
- Eq. laiqasse “greenness” ✧ LT1A/Tári-Laisi
- Eq. letinwesse “constellation” ✧ QL/052
- Eq. liantasse “vine” ✧ QL/053
- Eq. maptalesse “rapine” ✧ PE15/76
- Eq. polesse “porridge” ✧ QL/075
- Eq. soveasse “resemblance; likelihood” ✧ QL/085
- Eq. silkesse “harvest” ✧ QL/084
- Eq. siqilisse “weeping willow; lamentation” ✧ QL/084
- Eq. telyantasse “allurement” ✧ QL/090
- Eq.
ulwesse“alder-thicket” ✧ PE15/69 (ulwesse)- Eq. vanesse “beauty” ✧ QL/099
Variations
- -sse ✧ LT1A/Tári-Laisi (-sse); PE13/162 (-sse); PE15/69 (-sse); PE15/76 (-sse); QL/029 (-sse); QL/036 (-sse); QL/037 (-sse); QL/041 (-sse); QL/048 (-sse); QL/052 (-sse); QL/053 (-sse); QL/075 (-sse); QL/084 (-sse); QL/084 (-sse); QL/085 (-sse); QL/090 (-sse); QL/099 (-sse)
-sse
suffix. at, in, by; inessive suffix
Changes
-isse→ -sse ✧ PE14/078-issea→ -ssea ✧ PE14/078Element in
Variations
- -sse ✧ PE14/046; PE14/078
- -isse ✧ PE14/047; PE14/047 (-isse); PE14/078; PE14/078 (
-isse)- -se ✧ PE14/047 (-se); PE14/078
- -ssea ✧ PE14/078
- -de ✧ PE14/078
- -sea ✧ PE14/078
- -dea ✧ PE14/078
- -issea ✧ PE14/078 (
-issea)- -kse ✧ QL/056 (-kse)
-ie
suffix. abstract noun
Element in
- Eq. aiqie “highness, height” ✧ PE15/74
- Eq. apantie “display” ✧ QL/034
- Eq. (uru)purnie “conflagration” ✧ QL/075
- Eq. koivie “awakening; liveliness” ✧ QL/048
- Eq. qívie “awakening” ✧ GL/29
- Eq. fandelúvie “monstrosity, immoderation, violence, barbarity, grossness” ✧ QL/038
- Eq. anúvie “manhood, doughtyness” ✧ QL/031
- Eq. unqie “hearing” ✧ QL/098
- Eq. fairie “freedom” ✧ QL/037
- Eq. liltie “dancing, dance” ✧ QL/055
- Eq. nyarie “fable, story, legend” ✧ QL/068
- Eq. kondorie “martial ardour” ✧ QL/048
- Eq. oiwie “gloss, glossiness” ✧ QL/071
- Eq. ordie “height, loftiness” ✧ QL/070
- Eq. pantie “unfolding, opening, revealing” ✧ QL/072
- Eq. perendie “patience; endurance; an agelong period” ✧ QL/073
- Eq. qeleksie “rot, corruption” ✧ QL/076
- Eq. qolúvie “pestilence” ✧ QL/078
- Eq. tárie “height”
- Eq. tulpie “supporting, toleration” ✧ QL/093
- Eq. tyalie “play, game” ✧ QL/049
- Eq. úsiéra “*escaped”
- Eq. vaqi(e) “victory” ✧ QL/100
-le
suffix. abstract noun
Element in
- Eq. aiqale “a steep, steepness” ✧ QL/029
- Eq. aistale “worship” ✧ QL/034
- Eq. kityale “tickling” ✧ QL/047
- Eq. ettele “family, kindred (in the wide sense)” ✧ QL/036
- Eq. fatsale “(tasseled) fringe” ✧ QL/037
- Eq. isqale “cleverness” ✧ QL/043
- Eq. imbile “swarm, flock” ✧ QL/041
- Eq. inqile “sameness” ✧ QL/042
- Eq. kaitoile “rest” ✧ QL/046
- Eq. kangale “web” ✧ QL/045
- Eq. kilinkele “jingling of (small) bells” ✧ QL/046
- Eq. kankale “laughter” ✧ QL/044
- Eq. lindele “music, song” ✧ QL/054
- Eq. lísele “sweetness” ✧ QL/055
- Eq. maqale “legerdemain, sleight” ✧ QL/057
- Eq. vaktele “trade” ✧ QL/099
- Eq. mantele “gauntlet” ✧ QL/057
- Eq. maptale “seizure; robbery by violence; rape, ravishment, forcible seizure and carrying off”
- Eq. marmale “beach” ✧ QL/063
- Eq. miqele “kissing” ✧ QL/061
- Eq. naikele “anguish” ✧ QL/065
- Eq. nyenyele “lament, lamentation, weeping” ✧ QL/069
- Eq. nektele “honeycomb” ✧ QL/065
- Eq. nessele “pasture, mead; pasturage” ✧ QL/066
- Eq. nostale “species, kind; nature” ✧ QL/066
- Eq. ondole “stone monument; stone-cairn” ✧ QL/070
- Eq. pampile “trembling” ✧ QL/072
- Eq. pumpole “bubble; merboy” ✧ QL/075
- Eq. qárele “watchfulness, anxiety” ✧ QL/076
- Eq. qampale “chaffering” ✧ QL/076
- Eq. qentele “sentence; wording, expression, phrase” ✧ QL/077
- Eq. qinqele “languor” ✧ QL/077
- Eq. rendole “cousinship” ✧ QL/079
- Eq. ristale “sowing time” ✧ QL/080
- Eq. saikele “famine” ✧ QL/082
- Eq. píqele “bitterness” ✧ QL/074
- Eq. sinqele “mine” ✧ QL/083
- Eq. siqile “sighing, lament” ✧ QL/084
- Eq. sunqele “sinking, falling, setting of heavenly bodies” ✧ QL/087
- Eq. tarkele “great system of roots” ✧ QL/094
- Eq. tektele “art of writing, script; writings, documents, papers, scriptures” ✧ QL/090
- Eq. tendile “feeling, sentiment” ✧ QL/091
- Eq. tengwele “sense” ✧ QL/091
- Eq. tintele “sparkling, twinkling (as of frosty stars)” ✧ QL/092
- Eq. tiqile “melting, thawing, thaw” ✧ QL/092
- Eq. tiutale “strengthening, reinforcement; confirmation; comfort, consolation, easement” ✧ QL/093
- Eq. tókele “handling” ✧ QL/094
- Eq. torqele “tropic heat” ✧ QL/094
- Eq. tunqele “hearing” ✧ QL/093
- Eq. túpele “roofing, tiles, roof” ✧ QL/095
- Eq. vainole “quiver” ✧ QL/100
- Eq. wendele “maidenhood” ✧ QL/103
- Eq. vestale “wedding” ✧ QL/101
- Eq. víkele “resemblance, comparison” ✧ QL/101
-me
suffix. abstract noun
Element in
-si
suffix. feminine suffix
Element in
Variations
- -tsi ✧ QL/100 (-tsi)
-tsi
suffix. feminine suffix
tu
pronoun. he
Changes
tu→ hu “he” ✧ PE14/078Element in
- Eq. tára·kasse Taniqetildo, tára·kasisse hu·sórie “on the high top of Taniqetil, on the high peaks he sat” ✧ PE14/046
Variations
tu✧ PE14/046; PE14/079 (tu)
-ni
suffix. feminine suffix
Element in
Elements
Word Gloss nî “woman”
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).