sinta (þ) (1) adj. "short" (STINTĀ). Cf. senna #2.
Quenya
senna
short
sinta
short
senna
adjective. short
tolma
noun. protuberance contrived to serve a purpose, knob, short rounded handle, knob, (short rounded) handle, protuberance contrived to serve a purpose
A noun in notes from the late 1960s glossed “a protuberance contrived to serve a purpose, knob, short rounded handle” derived from √TOL “stick out” (VT47/28).
Conceptual Development: A similar word ᴱQ. tolos (toloss-) “knob, lump” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√TOLO (QL/94).
-tes
short locative
-tes ending for dual "short locative" (the exact function of the case is uncertain) (Plotz)
ecet
short broad-bladed sword
ecet ("k")noun "short broad-bladed sword" (UT:284)
loica
failing, short, inadequate etc.
loica ("k") adj. "failing, short, inadequate etc." (PE17:151)
sintar
noun. short vowels
short vowels
tolma
protuberance contrived to serve a purpose, knob, short rounded handle
tolma noun "a protuberance contrived to serve a purpose, knob, short rounded handle", etc. (VT47:28)
ecet
noun. short stabbing sword
loica
adjective. failing, short, inadequate
nauca
adjective. stunted, shortened, dwarf(ed)
sennacénëa
adjective. short-sighted
sintacénëa
adjective. short-sighted
-is
respective
-is ending for the plural form of an unidentified case, by some called "respective" or "short locative" (Plotz)
-li
the elves
-li partitive pl. ending (simply called a plural suffix in the Etymologies, stem LI). The ending is used to indicate a plural that is neither generic (e.g. Eldar "the Elves" as a race) nor definite (preceded by article); hence Eldali is used for "some Elves" (a particular group of Elves, when they are first mentioned in a narrative, VT49:8). Sometimes Tolkien also lets -li imply a great number; in PE17:129, the form falmalinnar from _Namárië _is broken down as falma-li-nnar "foam wave-many-towards-pl. ending", and falmali by itself Tolkien translated "many waves" (PE17:73). A distinct accusative in -lī seems to occur in the phrase an i falmalī (PE17:127, apparently meaning the same as i falmalinnar, but replacing the allative ending with a preposition). Genitive -lion in vanimálion, malinornélion (q.v. for reference), allative -linna and -linnar in falmalinnar, q.v. The endings for other cases are only known from the Plotz letter: possessive -líva, dative -lin, locative -lissë or -lissen, ablative -lillo or -lillon, instrumental -línen, "short locative" -lis. When the noun ends in a consonant, r and n is assimilated before l, e.g. Casalli as the partitive pl. of Casar "Dwarf" (WJ:402), or elelli as the partitive pl. of elen "star" (PE17:127). It is unclear whether the same happens in monosyllabic words, or whether a connecting vowel would be slipped in before -li (e.g. ?queneli or ?quelli as the partitive pl. of quén, quen- "person").
senta-
verb. to shorten
@@@ Discord 2022-09-09
penië
noun. lack, want, shortage
@@@ also used for “poverty” in NQNT
-ssë
respective
-s (2) ending for the mysterious case sometimes called "respective", actually probably a shorter variant of the locative in -ssë. Pl. -is, dual -tes, partitive pl. -lis.
nauca
stunted
nauca ("k")adj. "stunted" (VT39:7), "stunted, shortened, dwarf(ed)" (PE17:45), especially applied to things that though in themselves full-grown were smaller or shorter than their kind, and were hard, twisted or ill-shapen (WJ:413). The word can also be used as a noun "dwarf" (PE17:45), the meaning it also had in Tolkiens early "Qenya" (LT1:261), but the distinct noun-form Nauco may be more usual.
macil
sword
macil ("k")noun "sword" (MAK, LT1:259, VT39:11, VT45:32, VT49:17); macilya "his (or their) sword" (PE17:130), see -ya #4.
tolos
knob, lump
tolos noun "knob, lump" (LT1:269; this "Qenya" form would seem to be a precursor of Quenya tolma, q.v.)
yelca
sword
[yelca noun ?"sword" - Tolkien's gloss is not certainly legible, and the word was struck out anyway. (VT45:11)]
senna (þ, cf. older form thenna) adj. "short" (PE17:185). This is a later (TLT) variant of sinta.