ᴹQ. alla² adj. and pron. “none, nothing” (Category: Negation)
A negative adjective appearing as {(a)láqa >>} alla in Demonstrative, Relative, and Correlative Stems (DRC) from 1948 (PE23/105 note #67), so probably meaning “*no” as in alla Elda pole quete “no Elf can say”. It can also be used pronominally to mean “nothing”, and for this function it has a variant lála (PE23/104). For example: merin alla “I want nothing”, or merin alla sino “I want none of this”.
References ✧ PE23/104-105, 111-112
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Inflections
allanna | allative | “*to nowhere” | ✧ PE23/112 |
(a)láqainen | instrumental plural | “by no means” | ✧ PE23/111 |
allasse | locative | “nowhere” | ✧ PE23/111 |
(a)láqandon | similative | “*like nothing” | ✧ PE23/111 |
Elements
la- | “no, none, not any” |
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