Eldamo : Quenya : nillë²

Q. #nillë² (nill-) n. “small [woman]” (Category: Woman)

Q. #nillë² (nill-), n. “small [woman]” (Category: Woman)

A diminutive form of nís “woman” given as nill- “small [woman]” in notes from 1968 (VT47/33).

Conceptual Development: An analogous diminutive form ᴱQ. qimelle “little woman” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s based on earlier ᴱQ. qin (qim-) “woman” (QL/77); this early word was also mentioned in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon (GL/45).

Reference ✧ VT47/33 ✧ nill- “small [woman]”

Derivations

< √NIS “woman” ✧ VT47/33

Phonetic Developments

√nis > nill-

[nisle] > [nizle] > [nille]

✧ VT47/33

ᴱQ. qimelle n. “little woman” (Category: Woman)

See Q. #nillë² for discussion.

References ✧ GL/45; QL/77

Glosses

“little woman” ✧ QL/77

Elements

qin¹	“woman, female”	✧ QL/77
#-lla	“diminutive”	✧ QL/77 (#-lle)

Cognates

G. gwiniel “lady” ✧ GL/45