-incë

suffix. diminutive ending

Cognates

• S. -eg “diminutive/singular ending”

Derivations

• ✶-i(n)ki “diminutive suffix”
  • √NIK “small” ✧ VT47/26; VT48/18

Element in

• ᴺQ. astaincë “particle”
• Q. Atarincë “Little Father”
• Q. cirincë “scarlet-plumed species of bird”
• Q. hérincë “*little lady” ✧ UT/195
• Q. luinincë “bluish”
• ᴺQ. lúmincë “minute, moment”
• ᴺQ. nyarrincë “mouse”
• ᴺQ. ringincë “cool, coldish”
• ᴺQ. sarnincë “pebble”

Variations

• -inkë ✧ UT/195 (-inkë)

cirinci

no bigger than wrens, but all scarlet, with piping voices on the edge of human hearing

cirinci ("k"), sg. *cirincë, noun: a species of birds, "no bigger than wrens, but all scarlet, with piping voices on the edge of human hearing" (UT:169). The word seems to incorporate the diminutive ending -incë.