Q. pitya adj. “petty, little” (Category: Small, Little)
A word for “petty” appearing in the name Quenya name Pitya-naucor “Petty-dwarves” from the Quendi and Eldar essay from 1959-60 (WJ/389). In The Shibboleth of Fëanor from 1968, it was used for “little” in the name Pityafinwë “Little Finwë” whose short name was Pityo (PM/353). In this document, the long name was revised to Nityafinwë, but the short name remained unchanged. In a word in a list of “large & small” roots from around 1968, Tolkien had pitya beside related words pikina and pinke, all following pia “little” which was derived from √PEYE (PE17/115). The words pikina, pinke were clearly derived from a different root ᴹ√PIK (Ety/PIK). The same is almost certainly true of pitya as well, with primitive *pik-yā becoming pitya because ky became ty in (Ancient) Quenya.
Conceptual Development: There are a couple of earlier “small” words beginning with p. The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had ᴱQ. pīnea “small” under the early root ᴱ√PIKI or ᴱ√PINI (QL/73). The first version of the Oilima Markirya poem had ᴱQ. pinilya “small” in the phrase pinilya wilwarindon “small like a butterfly” (MC/220).
References ✧ PE17/115; PM/353; WJ/389
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ᴱQ. pinilya adj. “small” (Category: Small, Little)
References ✧ MC/220; PE16/76
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ᴱQ. pínea adj. “small” (Category: Small, Little)
References ✧ QL/73, 95; VT40/8
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| pin | “little thing, mite” | ✧ QL/73 |
| #-a | “adjectival suffix” | ✧ QL/73 (#-a) |
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