nótima adj. "countable" (PE17:68, 172), negated únótima "uncountable", q.v.
Quenya
nótima
adjective. countable, limited in number (weight and measure); (colloquial) moderate in amount, some few, several
nótima
countable
nótima
adjective. countable; some few
únótima
not possible to count, countless
únótima adj. "not possible to count, countless" (VT39:14), pl. únótimë (translated "numberless") attested (ú-nót-imë "not-count-able") (Nam, RGEO:66, Appendix E). Cf. unnegated nótima, q.v.
not-
verb. reckon
not- vb. "reckon" (NOT); compare onot-. Passive participle nótina "counted, reckoned" (FS), nótima "countable" (PE17:68), #notië "counting, reckoning" in maquanotië "decimal system" (VT47:10), variant #nótië in caistanótië of similar meaning (VT48:11).
alima
fair, good
alima adj. "fair, good" (also alya) (PE17:146)
alya
fair, good
alya (1) adj. "fair, good" (PE17:146), "prosperous, rich, abundant, blessed" (GALA). In a deleted entry in Etym, the glosses provided were "rich, blessed"; another deleted entry defined alya as "rich, prosperous, blessed". (GALA, [ÁLAM], VT42:32, 45:5, 14)
linda
fair, beautiful
linda adj. "fair, beautiful" (of sound) (SLIN, LIND; VT45:27), "soft, gentle, light" (PE16:96), "beautiful, sweet, melodious of sound" (PE17:150); for Linda as a noun, see Lindar.
vanya
fair
vanya (1) adj. "fair" (FS), "beautiful" (BAN), a word referring to beauty that is "due to lack of fault, or blemish" (PE17:150), hence Arda Vanya as an alternative to Arda Alahasta for "Arda Unmarred" (ibid., compare MR:254). Nominal pl. Vanyar "the Fair", the first clan of the Eldar; the original meaning of this stem was "pale, light-coloured, not brown or dark" (WJ:382, 383, stem given as WAN), "properly = white complexion and blonde hair" (PE17:154, stem given as GWAN); stems BAN vs. WAN discussed, see PE17:150.
vanë
fair
vanë adj. "fair" (LT1:272; in Tolkien's later Quenya rather vanya)
vanë
adjective. fair, fair, [ᴱQ.] lovely
A word for “countable”, a combination of Q. not- “count” and -ima “-able” (PE17/62, 68). In Late Notes on Verb Structure (LVS) from 1969, Tolkien said that nótima also had the sense “limited in number (weight or measure)”, and thus colloquially was used to mean “moderate (in amount), some few, several” as in tas cennen nótimë eldali “I saw a few elves there” (PE22/155). See also [ᴹQ.] sempa for another word meaning “few”.
Conceptual Development: Early Qenya of the 1910s had a word ᴱQ. tasinwa “numbered” as an element in the name ᴱQ. Nieriltasinwa “Unnumbered Tears” (LT2/84).