Q. hí adv. “here” (Category: Near)
A word for “here” in notes from the late 1960s, derived from primitive ✶khĭn- (VT49/34). It seems to be part of an attempt to explain S. hí “now”.
Conceptual Development: Demonstrative, Relative, and Correlative Stems (DRC) from 1948 had a root √KHI that was a “demonstrative of 1st pers (b)”, that is “here by us” (PE23/96). It had a derived form ᴹQ. hi that could be used both spatially (“here by us”) and temporally (“now”). Primitive ✶khi was mentioned again in Eldarin Pronouns, Demonstratives, and Correlatives from the early 1950s, but the page where it appeared was deleted (PE23/131 note #31).
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would assume Q. hí had a meaning similar to its 1948 sense “here by us”, as opposed to the more general word sissë for “here”. On the basis of this hí, I would also used the 1948 elaborations of ᴹQ. hi such as ᴹQ. hina “this (by us)” or ᴹQ. hillo “hence (from us)”
Reference ✧ VT49/34 ✧ “here”
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| ✶khĭn- > hí | [kʰī] > [xī] > [hī] | ✧ VT49/34 |
ᴹQ. hi pron. “here, now (for both you and me)”
References ✧ PE23/96-99, 109, 111-112
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| hillo | ablative | “*hence (from us)” | ✧ PE23/112 |
| hinna | allative | “*hither (to us)” | ✧ PE23/112 |
| hisse | locative | “*here (by us)” | ✧ PE23/111 |
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