A colloquial word for “everyone/anyone [in the World]” in Demonstrative, Relative, and Correlative Stems (DRC) from 1948 as a reduction of qaqe imma (PE23/105).
Qenya
imma
any, any at all (in the world/existence); anything
tasse ni·kenne laqe imma
there I saw nobody whatsoever
erqáqa nóre imma
every single land whatsoever
le·mere imma mastō
do you want some bread, any quantity of bread and if so what
ni mene imma teo
I want some (of it)
qaqe imma
everyone/anyone [in the World]
qamma
pronoun. everyone/anyone [in the World]
le·mere umma masto?
Do you want some/any bread?
ni·kenne allane umma
I saw nobody at all
ko
adverb. reflexive
An adjective for “any” appearing in Demonstrative, Relative, and Correlative Stems (DRC). On the page where this first appeared, this was revised to amma then to umma (PE23/99 note #24-25). Despite these revisions, the rest of the document used imma- throughout in forms like ᴹQ. immane “anybody” and ᴹQ. immanome “any place”. The adjective imma could also be used substantively to mean “anything” (PE23/104).