Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
sempa
very little, few; a small amount, a small quantity
sempanome
adverb. *few places
The correlatives semen(n)ome, sempanome or (archaic) sennome appeared in Demonstrative, Relative, and Correlative Stems (DRC) from 1948 (PE23/112), a combination of ᴹQ. sem(p)- “few” and ᴹQ. nome “place(s)”.
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya I would update this to ᴺQ. semellë using the later suffix -llë.
sempar(yas)
adverb. *on few days
The correlatives ᴹQ. sempar or {semparyais >>} semparyas appeared in Demonstrative, Relative, and Correlative Stems (DRC) from 1948 (PE23/110), a combination of ᴹQ. sem(p)- “few” and ᴹQ. -ar(yas) “days”.
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya I would update this to ᴺQ. sempaurë “✱on few days” using aurë for “day”.
sempa maltō
a small quantity of gold
sempar ondoli
some few stones
sempar maltō
small amounts of gold
sempallume
adverb. *a few times
sempa malta
(very) little gold
sempanen
adverb. *by few means
sempa ondo
(a very) few stones
sempar maltar
{few kind[s] of or things of gold >} few (kind[s] of) gold
semparo
adverb. *for a few reasons
A correlative combination appearing in Demonstrative, Relative, and Correlative Stems (DRC) from 1948 (PE23/112), a combination of ᴹQ. sem(p)- “few” and ᴹQ. -ro “reasons”.
sempasse
adverb. *in few places
semellume
adverb. *a few times, *a few times, seldom
The correlative combinations semellume or sempallume appeared in Demonstrative, Relative, and Correlative Stems (DRC) from 1948 (PE23/110), a combination of ᴹQ. sem(p)- “few” and ᴹQ. -llume “time(s)”.
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya I would also use semellume to mean “seldom” to replace (probably abandoned) seman(an).
semmen
adverb. *by few means
The correlative semmen or {sempainen >>} sempanen appeared in Demonstrative, Relative, and Correlative Stems (DRC) from 1948 (PE23/111), a combination of ᴹQ. sem(p)- “few” and the instrumental suffix ᴹQ. -nen.
semesse
adverb. *in few places
A correlatives appearing in Demonstrative, Relative, and Correlative Stems (DRC) from 1948 (PE23/111), a combination of ᴹQ. sem(p)- “few” and the locative suffix -sse.
semen(n)ome
adverb. *in few places
sennome
adverb. *in few places
An adjectival form of ᴹQ. sem(p)- “few” appearing in Demonstrative, Relative, and Correlative Stems (DRC) from 1948 (PE23/105). Tolkien said it was “chiefly used with genitive”, as in sempa maltō “a small quantity of gold”; likely this refers specifically to its use in the singular form. As an adjective it usually uses a plural: sempar ondoli “some few stones” (PE23/106). Note that in the 1940s, adjective plurals often us -r; in Tolkien’s later system this would probably be ✱sempe ondoli. The adjective may be used with a singular noun, but this is more emphatic: sempa ondo “a (very) few stones” (PE23/106).