Eldamo : Sindarin : pîn

S. #pîn adj. “little” (Category: Small, Little)

S. #pîn, adj. “little” (Category: Small, Little): G. inc “little”; G. inig “small”

A word appearing only in its mutated form bîn in the name S. Cûl Bîn “Little Load” (RC/536).

Conceptual Development: The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had G. pinig “tiny, little” (GL/64), likely based on the early root ᴱ√PINI or √PIKI having to do with small thinks (QL/73). The Etymologies of the 1930s had N. pigen “tiny” under the root ᴹ√PIK (Ety/PIK).

References ✧ RC/536

Inflections

Bîn

soft-mutation; p-mutation

“little”

✧ RC/536

Element In

S. Cûl Bîn “Little Load” ✧ RC/536

Derivations

< *√PI(N) “little”

G. pinig adj. “tiny, little” (Category: Small, Little)

See S. #pîn for discussion.

References ✧ GL/51, 64

Glosses

“tiny, little” ✧ GL/64

pinig “tiny, little” = migin ✧ GL/64
inig “small” cp. pinig ✧ GL/51

Derivations

< ᴱ√PINI “*small”