Qenya
ní
noun. woman, female
ni
pronoun. I, me
nis
noun. woman (of any kindred: elf, human or dwarf)
nisse
noun. woman
inárea ní
as old as I am
-nye
suffix. I
nye
pronoun. me, I
nessa
adjective. young
unda-
verb. to sink
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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).