ᴺQ. !nihta n. “piece, bit, small part” (Category: Bit, Small Thing)
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ᴱQ. mitta² n. “piece, bit (of indeterminate size)” (Category: Bit, Small Thing)
The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had ᴱQ. min (mind-) “a bit, piece” under the early root ᴱ√MINI (QL/61). The English-Qenya Dictionary of the 1920s instead had ᴱQ. mie “bit” = “small piece” (PE15/70) while Early Qenya word-lists of this same period had mie “a bit” (PE16/143). The Qenya word mie was also mentioned in contemporaneous Early Noldorin word-lists as a cognate to ᴱN. mui “crumb”, both derived from ᴱ✶smeigé (PE13/150).
The English-Qenya Dictionary of the 1920s had a variant form ᴱQ. mitta “bit = of indeterminate size” (PE15/70). The contemporaneous Early Qenya Grammar used mitta with the meaning “piece” (PE14/48, 81). These 1920s words seem to be based on a root *ᴱ√MIKI; compare adverbial ᴱQ. mike “a (little) bit” (PE14/48, 80-81; PE15/70).
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would update these words to ᴺQ. nihta “piece, bit, small part” derived from the later root √NIK.
References ✧ PE14/48, 81; PE15/70
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ᴱQ. mie² n. “bit, small piece” (Category: Bit, Small Thing)
References ✧ PE13/150; PE15/70; PE16/143
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