Eldamo : Middle Quenya : titse

ᴹQ. titse (tits-) n. “kitten” (Category: Cat)

ᴹQ. titsë (tits-), n. “kitten” (Category: Cat)

A word for “kitten” in the Declension of Nouns from the early 1930s, appearing in both a short form tis (with stem tits-) and longer titse used “in the simplex” (PE21/20, 27). It may be related to the root ᴹ√TIT “*tiny” from The Etymologies written around 1937 (Ety/TIT).

References ✧ PE21/20, 27

Glosses

“kitten” ✧ PE21/20 (tis); PE21/27 (tis)

Variations

titse ✧ PE21/27
tis ✧ PE21/20; PE21/27

Inflections

titsa	accusative	✧ PE21/27
titsin	nominative plural	✧ PE21/27
titsulin	nominative plural	✧ PE21/27
tits-	stem	✧ PE21/20

Derivations

< ᴹ√TIT? “*little, tiny”