ni

pronoun. I, me

ní Archaic

noun. woman, female

An archaic noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “woman” or “female” directly derived from the root ᴹ√NĪ, in ordinary speech usually replaced by ᴹQ. nis (Ety/INI, NĪ¹).

Conceptual Development: ᴱQ. nî “woman” appeared in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s as a cognate to G. †nîr of the same meaning (GL/60).

ni tele karite

I mean to make it

ni tele tule

I intend to come

nila tyaze sine, ni tyaze thé

I don’t like this, I like the other

ni mene imma teo

I want some (of it)

ni nahtanelya

I (am) having slain, I have slain

ni qente (sa) e·tule

I said he is coming, I said (that) he was coming

ni qente (sa) e·tulle

I said he came, I stated that (at some time previous to my speaking) he came (but was no longer present)

ni qente (sa) e·utúlie

I said he had come

ni qete (sa) e·tule

I say (that) he is coming

nisse

noun. woman

ni taltalya

I am slipping down

ni·te·qete tule

I tell him to come, say to him to come, bid him to come

ni’anta Archaic

I give

qe e·kárie i kirya aldaryas, ni kauva kiryasta menelyas

if he finishes the boat by Monday, I shall be able to sail on Wednesday

hapalli(ni)

of similar number

A correlative combination in Demonstrative, Relative, and Correlative Stems (DRC) from 1948 (PE23/108), a combination of ᴹQ. hap- “similar” and ᴹQ. -lli(ni) “number”.

immalli(ni)

of any number (you like)

The correlative ᴹQ. immalli or immallini “of any number (you like)” appeared in Demonstrative, Relative, and Correlative Stems (DRC) from 1948 (PE23/108), a combination of ᴹQ. imma “any” and ᴹQ. -lli(ni) “number”.

Neo-Quenya: Since ᴹQ. imma “any” too closely resembles the later prefix Q. im- “same”, for purposes of Neo-Quenya I would update this to ᴺQ. aialli “of any number” using the hypothetical prefix ᴺQ. ai(a)- “any”; see that entry for discussion.

malli(ni)

how many

The correlatives ᴹQ. mallini or malli “how many” appeared in Demonstrative, Relative, and Correlative Stems (DRC) from 1948 (PE23/108), a combination of interrogative ᴹQ. ma and ᴹQ. -lli(ni) “many”.

olli(ni)

of the same number

The correlatives ᴹQ. olli or ollini “of the same number” appeared in Demonstrative, Relative, and Correlative Stems (DRC) from 1948 (PE23/108 and note #98), a combination of ᴹQ. on- “same” and ᴹQ. -lli(ni) “number”.

Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya I would update this to ᴺQ. imalli(ni) “of the same number” using im- “same”.

-lli(ni)

suffix. many, number(s)

A suffix used for adjectives and pronouns of quantity appearing in Demonstrative, Relative, and Correlative Stems (DRC) from 1948 (PE23/108), for example: ᴹQ. mallini “how many”, ᴹQ. tallini “that many”.

-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).

aiqe e·kestanen ela en ni túlie/karnet

if he had asked me (he did not), I should have come/made it

aiqe ni káraza (nila) san ette kára(za) yú

if I were doing this now (I am not), he would be doing it too

ni qetis tule Reconstructed

I tell him to come, say to him to come, bid him to come

-nye

suffix. I

aialli

a different number

The correlative ᴹQ. {waryalli >>} aialli “a different number” appeared in Demonstrative, Relative, and Correlative Stems (DRC) from 1948 (PE23/108 and note #97), a combination of ᴹQ. aia- “other” and ᴹQ. -lli(ni) “number”.

Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya I would update this to ᴺQ. hyalli(ni) “a different number” using later hya for “other”.

inya

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.

anta-

verb. to give

kavinye antās

I can give it

mat-

verb. to eat

-a

suffix. adjectival suffix

nye

pronoun. me, I

si

pronoun. this

ye-

verb. to be

nakuvan tye uvana néra

I will slay thee, wicked man

ná-

verb. to be

rea

noun/adjective. female

ten

conjunction. for

wenda

adjective. female