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Middle Primitive Elvish

nindi

root. fragile, thin

A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “fragile, thin” with derivatives like ᴹQ. ninde/N. ninn “slender” (Ety/NIN-DI), replacing deleted ᴹ√NIN-DA “blue” (EtyAC/NIN-DI) which was probably a later manifestation of ᴱ√NINI “✱blue” from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/66). ᴱ√NINI had derivatives in both Qenya and Gnomish in the 1910s, but there are no signs of nin- as “blue” in Tolkien’s later writing.

Changes

  • NIN-DA → NIN-DI “blue” ✧ Ety/NIN-DI

Derivatives

  • ᴹQ. ninde “slender” ✧ Ety/NIN-DI
  • N. ninn “slender” ✧ Ety/NIN-DI

Variations

  • NIN-DI ✧ Ety/NIN-DI
  • NIN-DA ✧ EtyAC/NIN-DI (NIN-DA)
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/NIN-DI; EtyAC/NIN-DI] Group: Eldamo. Published by

terēn(ē)

adjective. slender

Derivations

  • ᴹ√TER “pierce” ✧ Ety/TER

Derivatives

  • ᴹQ. teren “slender, slender; [ᴱQ.] lissom, lithe” ✧ Ety/TER
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