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NĪ/INI root. “*female”

NĪ/INI root. “[ᴹ√] female”
EYE “feminine”

A root associated with feminity, most often used in its extended variant √NIS. The root first appeared as invertible ᴹ√NĪ¹/INI “female, woman” in The Etymologies of the 1930s with derivatives like ᴹQ. inya/N. inw “female” and ᴹQ. inimeite “*feminine” (Ety/INI, NĪ¹). Invertible √INI “female” was also mentioned in the contemporaneous Primitive Quendian Structure: Final Consonants (PE21/55), and √INI was mentioned again in Common Eldarin: Noun Structure from the early 1950s (PE21/71).

Reference ✧ PE21/71 ✧ INI

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ᴹ√NĪ¹/INI root. “female”

See √NĪ/INI for discussion.

References ✧ Ety/BES, ƷAN, INI, NDIS, NETH, NĪ¹, NIS; EtyAC/ƷAN, NETH, NĪ¹; PE21/55

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