Eldamo : Middle Quenya : sempi

ᴹQ. sempi pron. “few” (Category: Few, Little)

ᴹQ. sempi, pron. “few” (Category: Few, Little)

A (plural) pronominal form of ᴹQ. sem(p)- appearing in Demonstrative, Relative, and Correlative Stems (DRC) from 1948 (PE23/103). Its adjective form is sempa (PE23/106). In drafts Tolkien gave it a singular form sempe (PE23/106 note #80).

References ✧ PE23/103, 105-106

Glosses

“few” ✧ PE23/103
“few (with genitive)” ✧ PE23/106
“few; not much” ✧ PE23/106 (sempe)

Variations

sempi ✧ PE23/103; PE23/106
sen ✧ PE23/105
sempe ✧ PE23/106

Changes

sen >> sempa “a small amount, a small quantity, very little, few” ✧ PE23/105
sem- >> semp- ✧ PE23/105

Inflections

semi	plural	“small amounts”	✧ PE23/105
sempi	plural	“small amounts”	✧ PE23/105
sempi	plural		✧ PE23/106
sem-	stem		✧ PE23/105
semp-	stem		✧ PE23/105

Elements

sem(p)-

“few, little, not many, not much”

Element In

ᴹQ. sempe malta “not much gold” ✧ PE23/106