| ni (1) 1st person sg. pron. "I" (according to PE17:68 also “me” as object), with long vowel (ní) when stressed (VT49:51), cf. ní nauva next to nauvan for *“I will be” (VT49:19), the former wording emphasizing the pronoun. The pronoun ni represents the original stem-form (VT49:50). Dative nin "for me, to me" (Arct, Nam, RGEO:67, VT41:11/15). Compare the reflexive pronoun imni, imnë *"myself" and the emphatic pronoun inyë, q.v. – The ancient element ni is said to have implied, originally, “this by me, of my [?concern]” (VT49:37)
†ní (2) noun "woman, female" (NI1, INI (NĒR ) ). Not to be confused with ní as a stressed form of the pronoun ni “I”.
ní (3) prep. “beneath, not touching, under” (PE17:95)
níca ("k") adj. "small". The word is said to mean "small" with "good senses"; contrast nípa, *nimpë. (VT47:26, VT48:18)
nícë "little finger" (VT48:5, 15), also lepincë
nicu- ("k") vb. "be chill, cold (of weather); to snow, it is cold, it freezes" (WJ:417, PE17:168): 3rd sg. aorist niquë (q.v.) “it snows or freezes”, present níqua “it is freezing”, pa.t. nicunë “it snowed, froze” (PE17:168)
nië noun "tear" (NEI, VT45:38, LT1:262, LT2:346); apparently níe in MC:221
Niélë fem. name (meaning unclear, cf. nië “tear”?), diminutive Nieliccilis ("k") noun "little Niéle" (MC:215; PE16:96). This may suggest that Niélë has the stem-form *Niéli-.
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