mitta

inwards, [?into]

mitta (4) prep. "inwards, [?into]" (Tolkiens gloss is not certainly legible). Also minta. (VT45:34)

mitta

piece

mitta (3) noun "piece" (VT45:81)

mitta

preposition/adverb. between, [ᴹQ.] inwards, into, [ᴱQ.] in; [Q.] between

mittalmar

place name. Inlands

The central region of Númenor (UT/165). It may be a compound of mitta “between” and már “home”, with the “l” perhaps inserted to be euphonious.

mitta-

verb. to insert, to insert; [ᴹQ.] to come in, [ᴱQ.] enter (intr.)

A verb glossed “insert” in notes from the 1950s derived from the root √MI “in” (VT43/30). ᴹQ. mitta- was also glossed “insert” in the Quenya Verbal System (QVS) from 1948 (PE22/110), but in some sentences in the same document it was translated “come in”: ᴹQ. á he mittar “let them come in” and mitt’ā́ “come in!” (PE22/106). In its early appearance in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, ᴱQ. mitta- was glossed “enter (intr.)” and derived from the early root ᴱ√MĪ (QL/61).

Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would assume mitta- can be used intransitively for “enter [= insert oneself]” and transitively for “insert”, with the thing inserted as the direct object and the thing entered in the allative. Hence mittanen latil i fendenna “I inserted a key into the door” but mittanen i fendenna “I entered [inserted myself] into the door”. The use of the allative in these examples is speculative.

mittanya-

verb. *to lead (into), induce

A verb used in drafts of Quenya prayers from the 1950s in the phrase {úalye >>} álalye mittanya me {terpellienna >>} insangarenna “lead us not into temptation” (VT43/8-11). Wynne, Smith, and Hostetter suggested it is probably connected to [ᴱQ./ᴹQ.] mitta “inwards, into”, so probably meaning “lead into = cause to go into”, or perhaps “cause to give into” [with the second element being a variant of anta- “give”]. In later iterations of the prayer, mittanya- was replaced by tulya- “lead = ✱bring”.

Neo-Quenya: Despite its replacement, I think mittanya- may remain viable as a verb for purposes of Neo-Quenya, with a sense of “lead = ✱guide or persuade [someone into a situation]” as opposed to tulya- “lead = ✱bring [someone or something to someplace]”. I personally suspect Tolkien intended mittanya- to mimic Latin “inducas” from the Medieval Lord’s prayer meaning “in-draw/lead”; this Latin verb became Modern English “induce”.

mittar(ë)

noun. *entering, entrance

The word mittarion appeared in tengwar form on what seems to be a page of art for an (unpublished) book cover created by Tolkien, within the untranslated phrase parma mittarion (TMME/192). The general consensus is that this phrase probably means something like “✱book of enterings”, where the word mittarion is genitive plural form of a noun mittare or mittar “entering” based on the verb mitta- “to insert, enter”. I think “entrance” is another plausible translation.

Mittalmar

midlands

Mittalmar noun the "Midlands" of Númenor (UT:165). May incorporate mitta- "between" and hence *"in the middle".

minta

inwards, [?into]

minta prep. "inwards, [?into]" (Tolkien's gloss is not certainly legible). Also mitta. (VT45:34)

mitta-

between

mitta- (2) prep. "between" (VT43:30; the final hyphen may suggest that suffixes would normally follow)

mitta-

insert

mitta- (1) vb. "insert" (VT43:30)

mittanya-

to lead

mittanya- vb. "to lead" (+ allative: lead into) (VT43:10, 22; Tolkien may have abandoned this form in favour of tulya-)

mittandë

noun. infixion, intrusion, infixion, intrusion, [ᴹQ.] insertion

mitta-

verb. come in

mitta-#

verb. infix

infix

mittande

noun. infixion

infixion, intrusion

mittande

noun. insertion, infixion

enel

between

enel prep. "between" = "at the central position in a row, list, series, etc. but also applied to the case of three persons" (VT47:11). This preposition refers to the position of a thing between others of the same kind; compare imbë.

imbë

between

imbë (1) prep "between" (Nam, RGEO:67, VT47:11, PE17:92). This is "between" referring to a gap, space, barrier, or anything intervening between two other things, like or unlike one another (compare enel). The pluralized form imbi implies "among" of several things (ancalima imbi eleni "brightest among stars"); "in the sense 'among' before plurals [imbë] is usually pluralized > imbi even when a plural noun follows". As pointed out by Patrick Wynne, imbi may also be used in the sense of "between" before two singular nouns connected by "and" (as in the example imbi Menel Cemenyë "between heaven and earth"), whereas imbë is used before dual forms, as in the examples imbë siryat "between two rivers", imbë met "between us". Elided imb' in the phrase imb' illi "among all" (VT47:11, 30). A dual form imbit is also mentioned, used to express "in absolute form the sense 'between two things' when these are not named" (apparently meaning that imbit expresses *"between them" referring to two entities, with no noun following) (VT47:30, PE17:92)

imi

in

imi prep. "in"; see mi (VT43:30)

imi

preposition. in, in, [ᴱQ.] inside

mi

in, within

mi prep. "in, within" (MI, VT27:20, VT44:18, 34, VT43:30; the latter source also mentions the variant imi); mí "in the" (Nam, RGEO:66; CO gives mi; the correct forms should evidently be mi = "in" and mí = mi i "in the"; VT49:35 also has mí with a long vowel, though the gloss is simply "in"). Used in PE17:71 (cf. 70) of people clad "in" various colours, e.g. mi mísë "in grey". Allative minna "to the inside, into" (MI), also mina (VT43:30). The forms mimmë and mingwë seem to incorporate pronominal suffixes for "us", hence ?"in us", inclusive and exclusive respectively. The pronoun -mmë denoted plural inclusive "we" when this was written, though Tolkien would later make it dual instead (see -mmë). Second person forms are also given: mil or milyë *"in you" (sg.), millë "in you" (pl.) (VT43:36). A special use of mi appears in the phrase Wendë mi Wenderon "Virgin of Virgins" (VT44:18); here mi appears superfluous to achieve the desired meaning, but this combination of singular noun + mi + plural genitive noun may be seen as a fixed idiom expressing that the initial noun represents the most prominent member of a class.

mi

preposition. in, in, [ᴹQ.] within

nihta

noun. piece, bit (of indeterminate size)