An adverb appearing as ᴱQ. minyallume “firstly” in the Early Qenya Grammar of the 1920s as a combination of ᴱQ. minya “first” and ᴱQ. -llume “time”, so more literally “*first time” (PE14/84). Tolkien said this word was “rare except ... in enumerating the heads of an argument”, much how English might use “in the first place”. The more usual way of expressing “first” as an adverb was to use ᴱQ. min “one (in counting)”, as in ᴱQ. hu·karne ha min “he did it first (i.e. either before anyone else did so, or before he did anything else)”.

Neo-Quenya: Since both minya “first” and ᴹQ. -llume “time” survive in Tolkien’s later writings, I would retain ᴺQ. minyallumë “firstly” for purposes of Neo-Quenya. I would also retain the use of min used as an adverb “first”, though the example phrase would become carnes sa min “he/she did it first” in Tolkien’s later system of pronouns.