Qenya
inya
pronoun. *mine
inya
adjective. female
Cognates
- N. inw “female” ✧ Ety/INI
Derivations
- ᴹ√NĪ/INI “female” ✧ Ety/INI
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√INI > inya [inja] ✧ Ety/INI Variations
- inya ✧ Ety/INI
ninya
pronoun. my, my; [ᴺQ.] mine
Element in
- ᴹQ. ha inya karite “I am to (have to) make it” ✧ PE22/123
- ᴹQ. nan úye sére indo-ninya símen, ullume “but my heart resteth not here for ever” ✧ LR/072
- ᴺQ. ninya ná cares “I need do it, (lit.) mine is to do it”
- ᴹQ. inya karie·te “I am to (have to) make it” ✧ PE22/123
Variations
- inya ✧ PE22/123 (inya); PE22/123 (inya)
inye
pronoun. I (emphatic)
Element in
- ᴹQ. a yonya inye tye-méla “and I too, my son, I love thee” ✧ LR/061
- ᴹQ. íqa ette tule, (san) inye tule “when(ever) hé comes, Í come” ✧ PE22/121
- ᴹQ. qe (ai) e·tule, (san) inye tule yú “if/when he comes, I come too” ✧ PE22/121
- ᴹQ. qe (ai) e·tulle, (san) inye tulle yú “if/when he came, I came too” ✧ PE22/121
mitsa
adjective. small
Cognates
- N.
mithren“small” ✧ EtyAC/MIT; EtyAC/MITDerivations
Element in
- ᴺQ. mitsavëo “micro-organism”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶mitra > mitsa [mitra] > [mitsa] ✧ EtyAC/MIT ᴹ√MIT > minte [minte] ✧ EtyAC/MIT Variations
minte✧ EtyAC/MIT (minte)
atar
noun. father
Cognates
Derivations
Element in
- ᴹQ. atarinya tye-meláne “my father, I love thee” ✧ LR/061
- ᴹQ. e·kestane ataretta karithe “he asked his father to do it” ✧ PE22/118
- ᴹQ. e·merne ataretta tule “he wished his father to come” ✧ PE22/118
- ᴹQ. Ilúvatar “All-father” ✧ Ety/ATA
- ᴹQ. ni·utúlie nyariello ve atarella “I have just come from talking with your father” ✧ PE22/119
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶atar > atar [atar] ✧ Ety/ATA
An adjective for “female” in The Etymologies of the 1930s, derived from the root ᴹ√INI “female” (Ety/INI).
Conceptual Development: In Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s, Tolkien gave a similar form ᴱQ. qinya “female”, an adjectival form of ᴱQ. qin “woman” (PE16/135).