ᴹQ. -(n)ikka suf. “small” (Category: Small, Little)
A suffix used in Demonstrative, Relative, and Correlative Stems (DRC) from 1948 to form correlatives for smallness in quantity or amount, such as ᴹQ. manikka “how small, *how little” and ᴹQ. tanikka “*that small, that little” (PE23/108). Tolkien specified that it was “only used in interrogatives and demonstratives”. It was probably related to diminutive ✶-i(n)ki and the root √-NIK “small”.
Reference ✧ PE23/108 ✧ -nikka “small”
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