Eldamo : Quenya : ni

Q. ni pron. “me, I” (Category: Pronoun)

Q. ni, pron. “me, I” (Category: Pronoun)

References ✧ LotR/377; PE17/14, 68, 147; PE22/151, 156, 158, 161, 168; RGEO/58-59; VT41/11, 13, 15; VT49/19-20, 30, 34, 51

Glosses

“I” ✧ PE17/14
“I/me” ✧ PE17/68
“S[ingular] 1a” ✧ VT49/51 (ní)

Variations

ni ✧ PE17/14; PE17/68
nī ✧ VT49/19
ní ✧ VT49/51

Inflections

nin(na)	allative		✧ PE17/147
nin	dative	“for me”	✧ LotR/377; PE22/151; PE22/161
nin	dative	“to me”	✧ PE17/68: dative/allative unemphatic
nin	dative		✧ PE17/68; VT49/34
nin	dative	“to me”	✧ PE22/156; VT41/13
nin	dative	“to me”	✧ PE22/158
nin	dative	“I”	✧ PE22/168; VT41/13; VT41/13; VT49/20; VT49/30
nin	dative	“me-for”	✧ RGEO/59
nin	dative	“me”	✧ VT41/11; VT41/15
nín	dative	“for me”	✧ RGEO/58

Element In

Q. antanë ninna “*he gave (it) to me” ✧ PE17/147
Q. imni “myself”
Q. sí man i yulma nin enquantuva? “who now shall refill the cup for me?” ✧ LotR/377; RGEO/58
Q. cé tulis, ní nauva tanomë “*if he/she comes, I will be there” ✧ VT49/19
Q. ecë nin? “please, may I?” ✧ VT49/20
Q. ecë nin care sa “I can do that” ✧ VT49/20
Q. ecuva nin carë sa nöa “I ‘may’ do that tomorrow, I have a chance of doing that [tomorrow]” ✧ VT49/20
Q. ma Varda enquantuva i yulma nin sí “will Varda now refill the cup for me?” ✧ PE22/161
Q. nai nin híres “it may well chance for me to find it” ✧ PE22/151
Q. nás mára nin “I like it” ✧ VT49/30
Q. ora nin “it warns me” ✧ VT41/15
Q. orë nin caritas “I feel an urge/wish/desire to do it” ✧ VT41/13
Q. orë nin caritas nó namin alasaila “I would like / feel moved to do so but judge it unwise” ✧ VT41/13
Q. órenya quéta nin “my heart is saying to me” ✧ VT41/13
Q. órenya quetë nin “my heart tells me” ✧ VT41/11
Q. quenten tulil márië nin “I said: you come happily (for me)” ✧ PE22/158
Q. quí(ta) la tuldes, nánë márië (nin) “[if he had not come], it was well to me (I was glad)” ✧ PE22/158
Q. sí man i yulma nin enquantuva?² “now who the cup for me will refill?” ✧ RGEO/59
Q. tultauvas sa nin “he will send it to me” ✧ PE22/156
Q. umbë nin i hríve nauva urra (si loa) “I have a feeling that winter will be bad (this year)” ✧ PE22/168

Cognates

ᴺS. ni “I”
T. ni “me, *I” ✧ VT41/11 (nin)

Derivations

< ✶ni “I, me” ✧ PE17/68; VT49/50

Phonetic Developments

✶NI > ni	[ni]	✧ PE17/68
✶ni > ní	[ni]	✧ VT49/51

ᴹQ. ni pron. “I” (Category: Pronoun)

References ✧ LR/72; PE21/61; PE22/92, 97, 104, 115, 118-123, 125, 127; SD/56

Glosses

“I” ✧ PE22/92; PE22/97; PE22/104; PE22/118; PE22/119; PE22/120; PE22/120 (ní); PE22/120; PE22/121; PE22/122; PE22/125; PE22/127; SD/56

Variations

ni ✧ PE22/92; PE22/97; PE22/104; PE22/115; PE22/118; PE22/119; PE22/120; PE22/120; PE22/121; PE22/122; PE22/125; PE22/127; SD/56
ní ✧ PE22/120

Inflections

nin	dative	“me”	✧ LR/72
nĭs	dative	“to me”	✧ PE21/61
ni	prefix	“I”	✧ SD/56
nie	stative		✧ PE22/123
ní	stative		✧ PE22/123
níva	stative-future		✧ PE22/123
níne	stative-past		✧ PE22/123

Element In

ᴹQ. aiqe e kestanelyanen (ela), en ni·túlie ✧ PE22/122
ᴹQ. aiqe e kestanelyanen (ela), en ni·tuluváne ✧ PE22/122
ᴹQ. aiqe e·kestanen ela en ni túlie/karnet “if he had asked me (he did not), I should have come/made it” ✧ PE22/121
ᴹQ. aiqe e kestanen (ela), en ni·tuluváne ✧ PE22/122
ᴹQ. aiqe e kestanen (ela), en ni·utúliévane ✧ PE22/122
ᴹQ. aiqe e·kestanen, en(ai) ni·túlie/karnet “if he had asked me, I should have come/made it” ✧ PE22/121
ᴹQ. aiqe e·kestuvan, ni·tuluva “If he asked me/were to ask me, I should come” ✧ PE22/120
ᴹQ. aiqe kestuvan ni·tuluva “If he asked me/were he to ask, I should come” ✧ PE22/97
ᴹQ. aiqe ni káraza (nila) san ette kára(za) yú “if I were doing this now (I am not), he would be doing it too” ✧ PE22/122
ᴹQ. auve e·kestanen, au ni·túlie “if he had asked me, I might have come” ✧ PE22/121
ᴹQ. illume e·kestanen/kestanelyanen, ni·tulle “when/if he (had) asked me, I came” ✧ PE22/121
ᴹQ. kavinye antās “I can give it” ✧ PE22/92
ᴹQ. lairesse nihare to tarassi, yu unta hrívesse landannar “in the summer I live in [i.e. on] the hills [as a rule], and come down to the plains in the winter” ✧ PE22/125
ᴹQ. le·merne i ni·karnéte “you wished that I had made (lit. made) it” ✧ PE22/118
ᴹQ. man táre antáva nin Ilúvatar, Ilúvatar? “what will the Father, O Father, give me” ✧ LR/72
ᴹQ. me·merilte karithe “we wish him to do it” ✧ PE22/118
ᴹQ. me·merilte tule “we wish him to come” ✧ PE22/118
ᴹQ. me·merilti karilthi “we wish them to make them (other things)” ✧ PE22/118
ᴹQ. nie karienna “I am to make; I am for/towards making it” ✧ PE22/123
ᴹQ. nila karit “I do not make it” ✧ PE22/127
ᴹQ. ni·la nyára pa matie “I am not talking about eating” ✧ PE22/119
ᴹQ. nila tyaze matie makse “I do not like eating meat” ✧ PE22/120
ᴹQ. níla tyaze matite sí “I don’t like eating (to eat) it now” ✧ PE22/120
ᴹQ. ni·mere in e·karithe “I wish him to do it/that he do(es) it” ✧ PE22/118
ᴹQ. ni·mere in e·tule “I wish him to come/that he come(s)” ✧ PE22/118
ᴹQ. ni·merite karithe “I wish him to do it” ✧ PE22/118
ᴹQ. ni·merite tule “I wish him to come” ✧ PE22/118
ᴹQ. ni nahtanelya “I (am) having slain, I have slain” ✧ PE22/104
ᴹQ. ni qente (sa) e·tule “I said he is coming, I said (that) he was coming” ✧ PE22/119
ᴹQ. ni qente (sa) e·tulle “I said he came, I stated that (at some time previous to my speaking) he came (but was no longer present)” ✧ PE22/119
ᴹQ. ni qente (sa) e·utúlie “I said he had come” ✧ PE22/119
ᴹQ. ni qete (sa) e·tule “I say (that) he is coming” ✧ PE22/119
ᴹQ. **ni qetis tule “I tell him to come, say to him to come, bid him to come” ✧ PE22/118
ᴹQ. ni taltalya “I am slipping down” ✧ PE22/115
ᴹQ. ni tele karite “I mean to make it” ✧ PE22/118; PE22/118
ᴹQ. ni tele tule “I intend to come” ✧ PE22/118; PE22/118
ᴹQ. ni·te·qete tule “I tell him to come, say to him to come, bid him to come” ✧ PE22/118
ᴹQ. ni·utúlie nyariello ve atarella “I have just come from talking with your father” ✧ PE22/119
ᴹQ. qe e·kárie i kirya aldaryas, ni kauva kiryasta menelyas “if he finishes the boat by Monday, I shall be able to sail on Wednesday” ✧ PE22/121
ᴹQ. qe e·kestan/kestuvan ni·tuluva “if he asks me, I shall come” ✧ PE22/97
ᴹQ. qe e·kestanen, ni·tulle “if he asked me I came” ✧ PE22/121
ᴹQ. qe e·kestan, ni·tuluva “if he asks me, I shall come” ✧ PE22/120
ᴹQ. qe e·kestuvan, ni·tuluva “when he asks me, I shall come; if on some future occasion he asks me, then on that occasion I shall come” ✧ PE22/120

Derivations

< ᴹ✶ni “I”

ᴱQ. ni¹ pron. “I; 1st sg. pronoun” (Category: Pronoun)

References ✧ LFC/30; PE14/52-54, 56, 59, 85

Glosses

“I” ✧ LFC/30; PE14/53; PE14/56; PE14/59
“Sg. 1” ✧ PE14/52; PE14/85

Variations

ni ✧ LFC/30; PE14/52; PE14/53; PE14/56; PE14/56; PE14/59; PE14/85

Inflections

ni	accusative	✧ PE14/53
nir	dative	✧ PE14/53
nin	genitive	✧ PE14/53
nisse	locative	✧ PE14/54

Element In

ᴱQ. mai ni·tuluva tu·tuluval ki “if I come (fut.), they will come” ✧ PE14/59
ᴱQ. an ni “give (it) me” ✧ PE14/53
ᴱQ. an nir “give (it) me” ✧ PE14/53
ᴱQ. mai ni·tule na tu·tulil nai “*if I come then they might come” ✧ PE14/59
ᴱQ. mai ni·tule tu·tulil “if I come (generic), they come (generic)” ✧ PE14/59
ᴱQ. mai ni·túlie tu·túliel “*if I had come, they would have come” ✧ PE14/59
ᴱQ. mai ni·tuluva tu·tuluval “whenever I come, they will come” ✧ PE14/59
ᴱQ. mára mesta an ni véla tye ento, ya rato nea “good-bye until I see you next, and I hope it will be soon” ✧ LFC/30
ᴱQ. ni·hepsine nímo tanko i·mailinen losselin “(it was) I myself (that) bound firmly the beautiful flowers” ✧ PE14/56
ᴱQ. nímo “I (emphatic); 1st sg. pronoun” ✧ PE14/53 (nīmo)
ᴱQ. ninya¹ “*my; 1st sg. possessive emphatic” ✧ PE14/54
ᴱQ. ni·tule “I come” ✧ PE14/53; PE14/56
ᴱQ. ni·tule nímo “it is I that come[s]” ✧ PE14/53; PE14/56
ᴱQ. nya- “*my; 1st sg. possessive” ✧ PE14/54 (nya·)