ᴹQ. nikse n. “minnow, little fish” (Category: Fish)
A word appearing in the Declension of Noun from the early 1930s as nis (niks-) or nikse “minnow, little fish” (PE21/20, 27). It reappeared in the Quenya Verbal System from the 1940s in the phrase ᴹQ. niksi koitar nenesse “fish live in water” (PE22/125). It might be related to the root √NIK “small”.
References ✧ PE21/20, 27; PE22/125
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| niksa | accusative | ✧ PE21/27 | |
| niksin | nominative plural | ✧ PE21/27 | |
| niksulin | nominative plural | ✧ PE21/27 | |
| niksi | plural | “fish” | ✧ PE22/125 |
| niks- | stem | ✧ PE21/20 |
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