ᴺQ. [ᴱQ.] ^nicë adv. “a little, a bit” (Category: Few, Little)
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ᴱQ. mike adv. “little, a (little) bit; diminutive” (Category: Few, Little)
An adverb for “little” in the Early Qenya Grammar of the 1920s with a shorter form mit (PE14/48, 80), also used as a diminutive prefix with variant forms mie and mimīke (PE14/81). In the contemporaneous English-Qenya Dictionary it was translated as “a bit”, and its variant mimīke “a little bit” seems to be somewhat emphatic.
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya I would update this adverb to ᴺQ. nicë “a little, a bit” using the later root √NIK, and would use it to modify both adjectives and verbs: nicë maita “a little hungry”, pata nicë “walk a bit”.
References ✧ PE14/48, 80-81; PE15/70, 74
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| mikiste(n) | diminutive | ✧ PE14/80; PE15/74 | |
| mis | diminutive | ✧ PE14/80; PE15/74 | |
| miste(n) | diminutive | ✧ PE14/80 | |
| miste(n) | diminutive | “less” | ✧ PE15/74 |
| mis | diminutive adverbial | “less” | ✧ PE14/48 |
| misten | diminutive adverbial | “less” | ✧ PE14/48 |
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