An adverb for “less” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/51), related to the G. -inthir (GL/18) and probably based on the early root ᴱ√INI “small” (QL/42). Tolkien initially indicated inthi was both an adjective and adverb.
Gnomish
-(a)vlid
suffix. -less
fir
adjective. less
inthi
adverb. less
A suffixal form of G. blid- “free, rid” the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s meaning “less”, as in the combination G. baravlid “homeless” (GL/23).