Quettaparma Quenyallo

Niellúnë noun "Sirius" (a star), also Nierninwa (LT1:262)

nienaitë adj. "bleared" (MC:214), *"tearfully"??? (see cildë) (MC:221; this is "Qenya")

nieninquë ("q") noun "snowdrop", etymologically "white tear" (NIK-W, LT1:262, 266)

nieninquëa ("q") adj. "snowdrop-like" (MC:215)

Nienna noun (name of a Valië, related to nië = tear) (NEI)

nier noun "honey-bee" (LT1:262)

niermë ??? (Narqelion)

Nierninwa noun "Sirius" (a star), also Niellúnë (LT1:262)

nierwes noun "hive" (LT1:262)

[nihtil noun "little finger" (VT47:26)]

-nil, final element in compounds, similar in meaning to Old English "-wine", sc. "-friend" as an element in names (NIL/NDIL). Also long -nildo (VT46:4). Variant of -ndil. In Eärnil, contraction of Earendil.

nilda adj. "friendly, loving" (NIL/NDIL)

nildë noun "friend" (fem.) (NIL/NDIL)

nildo noun "friend" (apparently masc.; contrast nildë) (NIL/NDIL)

nillë ("ñ") a star-imagine on Nur-menel (q.v.), from a stem ngil- noun "silver glint" (MR:388)

nilmë noun "friendship" (NIL/NDIL)

nilmo noun "friend" (apparently masc.) (NIL/NDIL)

nimpa adj. “drooping, ailing” (PE17:168)

*nimpë (nimpi-) adj. "small; small & frail". The form is given as "nimpi" with the last vowel marked as short; this is probably the etymological form that would underlie Quenya *nimpë. The word is said to mean "small" with "connotation of weakness". Also nípa (VT48:18)

nin pron. "to me, for me", dative of ni (FS, Nam). Sí man i yulma nin enquantuva? “Now who will refill the cup for me?” (Nam), nás mara nin *”it is good to me” = “I like it” (VT49:30), ecë nin carë sa *”it-is-open for me to do it” = “I can do it” (VT49:34). See also ninya.

#nína (gen.pl. nínaron attested) noun "woman" (VT43:31; this word, as well as some other experimental forms listed in the same source, seem ephemeral: several sources agree that the Quenya word for "woman" is nís, nis [q.v.])

*nincë (ninci-) ("k") adj. "small". The form is given as "ninki" with the last vowel marked as short; this is probably the etymological form that would underlie Quenya *nincë. The word is said to mean "small" with "good senses"; contrast nípa, *nimpë. (VT48:18)