ninquë

adjective. white; chill, cold; pallid

Changes

• ninque → losseä ✧ PE17/071

Cognates

• S. nimp “pale, pallid, white, pale, pallid, white; small and frail, [ᴱN.] wan, sickly” ✧ PE17/168
• S. nim “white” ✧ SA/nim

Derivations

• ✶ninkwi “white, pale”
  • √NIK(W) “(also of) snow, ice, snow, ice; *white” ✧ PE17/168
• √NIK(W) “(also of) snow, ice, snow, ice; *white” ✧ PE17/168

Element in

• ᴺQ. ninquima “frankincense”
• Q. nieninquë “snowdrop, snowdrop, [ᴹQ.] (lit.) white tear”
• ᴺQ. ninquelë “pallor”
• Q. Ninquelótë “White Blossom” ✧ SA/nim
• Q. ninqui carcar yarra “the white rocks snarling” ✧ MC/222; MC/222
• Q. ninquita- “to whiten, grow white, to whiten, grow white, [ᴹQ.] make white; to shine white”
• ᴺQ. ninteccon “chalk, (lit.) white writing rock”
• Q. sanomë tarnë Olórin, Aracorno, Eomer, Imrahil, mi mísë, mi telepta yo morna, mi laiqua yo ninquë, mi luinë, ta Gimli mi lossëa “There stood Gandalf, Aragorn, Eomer and Imrahil in grey, in silver and black, in green and white, and in blue, and also Gimli in white” ✧ PE17/071
• Q. Taniquetil “High White Peak”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
√NIK > ninque	[niŋkwi] > [niŋkwe]	✧ PE17/168

Variations

• ninque ✧ PE17/071; PE17/071 (ninque); PE17/168; WJ/417