A suffix used in Demonstrative, Relative, and Correlative Stems (DRC) from 1948 to form correlatives for smallness in quantity or amount, such as ᴹQ. manikka “how small, ✱how little” and ᴹQ. tanikka “✱that small, that little” (PE23/108). Tolkien specified that it was “only used in interrogatives and demonstratives”. It was probably related to diminutive ✶-i(n)ki and the root √-NIK “small”.
Qenya
inya
adjective. female
inya
pronoun. my (emphatic possessive), my
inya atarenna
to my father
inya karie·te
I am to (have to) make it
inye
pronoun. I (emphatic)
ninya
pronoun. my (emphatic possessive), my [independent possessive]; [ᴺQ.] mine
ha inya karite
I am to (have to) make it
atar
noun. father
amil
noun. mother
-(n)ikka
suffix. small
-nie
suffix. female
A feminizing suffix for pronominal forms in Quenya Personal Pronouns (QPP1) from the late 1940s (PE23/102), so that for example mane “who (neutral)” could become manie “who (female)” and ane “someone” could become anie “someone (female)”. It is probably based on the contemporaneous feminine primitive suffix ✶-eye. The suffix -nie replaced a rejected variant -re (PE23/102 note #37).
amme
noun. mother
mitsa
adjective. small
rea
noun/adjective. female
wenda
adjective. female
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).
In drafts for the first version of Quenya Personal Pronouns (QPP1) from the late 1940s, Tolkien had various adjectival forms based on the root ᴹ√(G)ERE/(G)RÉ “bear, produce” such as ᴹQ. rea “female”, réna, or ᴹQ. ríte “female [of any kind]” (PE23/87), but the relevant sections were rejected and there are no signs of the root ᴹ√RÉ in the revised text.