A word for “small” in the Gnomish Lexicon with variants ineg and G. inc (GL/51). Tolkien said this word was “especially used in quantitative sense as opposite of odog [great]”, as in inig bast no odog saith “✱small bread then great hunger”. It was clearly based on the early root ᴱ√INI “small” (QL/42).
Gnomish
inc
adjective. little
inig
adjective. small
aina
adjective. small
ineg
adjective. small
mad-
verb. to eat
migin
adjective. little
A word for “little” mentioned in the Gnomish Grammar of the 1910s (GG/16). It also appeared in contemporaneous the Gnomish Lexicon as a variant of G. inig “small” (GL/51).