Early Quenya
mis
noun. urine
Derivations
- ᴱ√MISI “mingere, *to urinate” ✧ QL/062
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√MISI > mis [mist] > [mis] ✧ QL/062
mike
adverb. little, a (little) bit; diminutive
Derivations
- ᴱ√MIKI “*little”
Element in
- Eq. mike- “diminutive”
Variations
- mit ✧ PE14/048
- mie ✧ PE14/081; PE15/70
- mimīke ✧ PE14/081; PE15/70
A noun appearing as ᴱQ. mis (mist-) “urine” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s from the early root ᴱ√MISI “mingere”, which is Latin for “urinate” (QL/62).
Neo-Quenya: I’d retain ᴺQ. mis (mist-) “urine” for purposes of Neo-Quenya, based on the later root ᴹ√MIS having to do with wet things. It conflicts somewhat with Q. mistë < √MIZDI “drizzle, light rain”, but I don’t see that as a problem, as the word for “urine” might have originated euphemistically as “make rain”.