Eldamo : Middle Quenya : semmen

ᴹQ. semmen adv. “*by few means” (Category: Few, Little)

ᴹQ. semmen, adv. “*by few means” (Category: Few, Little)

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.

References ✧ PE23/111

Glosses

“*by few means” ✧ PE23/111

Variations

semmen ✧ PE23/111
sempanen ✧ PE23/111
sempainen ✧ PE23/111

Changes

sempainen >> sempanen ✧ PE23/111

Elements

sem(p)-	“few, little, not many, not much”	✧ PE23/111 (semmen)
-nen	“instrumental”