Ad. -î- suf. “plural inflection” (Category: Noun Inflection)

Ad. -î- suf. “plural inflection” (Category: Noun Inflection)
The inflection used to mark nouns as plural (S/429), used either as a suffix (for weak-nouns) or replacing the last vowel (for strong-nouns). According to Tolkien, the primitive form of this suffix was most likely ✶-yī (SD/424). See the entry on the plural nouns case for further details.

References ✧ SD/424, 429

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✶Ad. -yī > [-jī] > [-ī] ✧ SD/429