Eldamo : Middle Quenya : malli(ni)

ᴹQ. malli(ni) adj. and pron. “how many” (Category: What)

ᴹQ. malli(ni), adj. and pron. “how many” (Category: What): ᴺQ. !manotë “how many, (lit.) what number”

The correlatives ᴹQ. mallini or malli “how many” appeared in Demonstrative, Relative, and Correlative Stems (DRC) from 1948 (PE23/108), a combination of interrogative ᴹQ. ma and ᴹQ. -lli(ni) “many”.

References ✧ PE23/106, 108

Glosses

“how large” ✧ PE23/106 (‽malya); PE23/106 (‽mallina)
“how many” ✧ PE23/108 (mallini); PE23/108 (malli); PE23/106 (malina); PE23/106 (malia)

Variations

malina ✧ PE23/106
malia ✧ PE23/106
‽malya ✧ PE23/106; PE23/106
‽mallina ✧ PE23/106; PE23/108 (mallina)
mallini ✧ PE23/108
malli ✧ PE23/108

Changes

mallina >> mallini “how many” ✧ PE23/108

Elements

ma	“interrogative particle”
-lli(ni)	“many, number(s)”

Element In

ᴹQ. malli yēni ista/ekēnie Túro “how many years knows/has Túro seen” ✧ PE23/108