An adjective in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from ON. pikina “tiny” under the root ᴹ√PIK (Ety/PIK).
Noldorin
mîw
adjective. small, tiny, frail
mîw
adjective. small, tiny, frail
mithren
adjective. small
pigen
adjective. tiny
pigen
adjective. tiny
A word in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “small, tiny, frail” under the root ᴹ√MIW (EtyAC/MIW²).
Conceptual Development: A possible precursor is G. migin “little” from the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/57). The Early Noldorin Grammar of the 1920s has ᴱN. mig, tidig, or migligen meaning “little (of amount)”, the last of these combined with ᴱN. ligen “small” (PE13/125).