Eldamo : Middle Quenya : nikse

ᴹQ. nikse n. “minnow, little fish” (Category: Fish)

ᴹQ. nixë, n. “minnow, little fish” (Category: Fish)

A word appearing in the Declension of Noun from the early 1930s as nis (niks-) or nikse “minnow, little fish” (PE21/20, 27). It reappeared in the Quenya Verbal System from the 1940s in the phrase ᴹQ. niksi koitar nenesse “fish live in water” (PE22/125). It might be related to the root √NIK “small”.

References ✧ PE21/20, 27; PE22/125

Glosses

“little fishes” ✧ PE21/27 (nis)
“minnow, ‘little fish’” ✧ PE21/20 (nis)

Variations

nikse ✧ PE21/27
nis ✧ PE21/20; PE21/27

Inflections

niksa	accusative		✧ PE21/27
niksin	nominative plural		✧ PE21/27
niksulin	nominative plural		✧ PE21/27
niksi	plural	“fish”	✧ PE22/125
niks-	stem		✧ PE21/20

Element In

ᴹQ. niksi koitar nenesse “fish live in water” ✧ PE22/125

Derivations

< √NIK? “small”