Qenya
mitsa
adjective. small
-(n)ikka
suffix. small
Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
mitsa
adjective. small
-(n)ikka
suffix. small
A suffix used in Demonstrative, Relative, and Correlative Stems (DRC) from 1948 to form correlatives for smallness in quantity or amount, such as ᴹQ. manikka “how small, ✱how little” and ᴹQ. tanikka “✱that small, that little” (PE23/108). Tolkien specified that it was “only used in interrogatives and demonstratives”. It was probably related to diminutive ✶-i(n)ki and the root √-NIK “small”.