Eldamo : Quenya : illi

Q. illi pron. “all” (Category: All, Every)

Q. illi, pron. “all” (Category: All, Every): ᴹQ. quáquë “all, everyone, every person/thing”; ᴹQ. quáquilli “all, all numbers of men (if referring to groups)”

A pronoun for “all” appearing in the phrase A ancalima imb’ illi “A [is] brightest among all” (PE17/91), presumably a plural variant of pronominal ilya “all”. I would use it when the referent is plural, as in Mana neri cennel? Cennen illi teo. “Which men did you see? I saw all of them.” Compare this to á anta ilya nin “give [it] all to me” referring to “all” as a collective, functionally singular.

Reference ✧ PE17/91 ✧ “all”

ilya “every, each, all (of a particular group of things)”

Element In

Q. A ancalima imb’ illi “A is brightest of all” ✧ PE17/91

Derivations

< √IL “all”