Quettaparma Quenyallo

i (3) conj. “that”. Savin Elessar ar i nánë aran Ondórëo “I believe that Elessar really existed and that [he] was a king of Gondor” (VT49:27), savin…i E[lesarno] quetië naitë *”I believe that Elessar’s speaking [is] true” (VT49:28) Also cf. nai, nái “be it that” (see nai #1), which may seem to incorporate this conjunction.

-i nominative plural ending regularly used on nouns ending in a consonant and in -ë; in the latter case, -ë is displaced (e.g. Quendë pl. Quendi).

[ia adv. "ever" (GEY, EY); replaced by oia.]

[ialë noun "everlasting age" (GEY; the word "age" dropped out in the Etymologies as printed in LR; see VT45:14. Replaced by oialë.]

-ië (1) infinitive (or gerundial) ending, “general infinitive” (PE17:68), attested in carië (see car-), enyalië, q.v. (CO)

-ië (2) abstract ending, often used to derive abstracts from adjectives, e.g. látië “openness” vs. láta “open”, mornië “darkness” vs. morna “black, dark”, vanië (for *vanyië) “beauty” vs. vanya “fair”.

-ië (3) "is", -ier "are", stative verb suffix occurring in Fíriel's Song: númessier "they are in the west", meldielto "they are...beloved", talantië "he is fallen", márië "it is good" (< *númessë "in the west", melda "beloved", *talanta "fallen"); future tense -iéva in hostainiéva "will be gathered" (< *hostaina "gathered"). Compare ye "is", yéva "will be", verbs that also occur in Fíriel's Song. This suffix is probably not valid in LotR-style Quenya: -ië is an infinitival or gerundial ending in CO, for ye "is" Namárië has ná, and the phrase "lost is" is vanwa ná, not *vanwië.

-iel patronymic/matronymic ending -"daughter" (YEL, VT46:22-23) In the Etymologies, Tolkien struck out this ending and the corresponding independent word yeldë "daughter", changing them to -ien, yendë. However, the ending -iel later turns up in later forms: Uinéniel "Daughter of Uinen" in UT:182 and Elerondiel “daughter of Elrond” (Elerondo) in PE17:56. Hence it would seem that Tolkien changed his mind again and restored this ending, and perhaps the noun yeldë along with it. – The form Elerondiel (from Elerondo) demonstrates that a final vowel is omitted before -iel.

-ien fem. ending in certain names like Yávien, Silmarien (q.v.) At one point -ien implied "daughter", see -iel above.