Eldamo : Sindarin : mi

S. mi prep. “in” (Category: In, Inside)

S. mi, prep. “in” (Category: In, Inside): G. ba “in”; G. bi “in”

The Sindarin word for “in” (PE23/133; VT50/5), equivalent to Q. mi of the same meaning. This preposition frequently appears in its mutated form vi (PE22/165; VT44/21; VT50/5), since Sindarin prepositions are typically mutated when appearing anywhere other than the beginning of a phrase.

References ✧ PE22/165; PE23/133; VT44/22, 27; VT50/18-19

Glosses

“*in” ✧ VT50/18 (vi); VT50/19 (vi); VT50/18 (mi)
“in” ✧ PE23/133

Variations

mi ✧ PE23/133; VT50/18; VT50/18 (mi)
vi ✧ VT50/18; VT50/19

Changes

mi >> vi ✧ VT50/18

Inflections

v’	elided	“in”	✧ PE22/165
vi	soft-mutation; m-mutation	“*in”	✧ VT44/22; VT44/27

Element In

ᴺS. !mivan “where, (lit.) in/at what”
S. ae Adar nín i vi Menel “our Father who [art] in Heaven” ✧ VT44/21
S. ar in Ellath epholar eno vi Eressai “*and the Elves (?remember) still in Eressëa” ✧ VT50/5
S. bo Ceven sui vi Menel “on Earth as [it is] in Heaven” ✧ VT44/21
S. i glinn hen agorer Edain mi Velerian, ach hí in Ellath îr ed epholar “*this song Men made in Beleriand, but now the Elves alone (?remember) it” ✧ VT50/5
S. inn dha v’im “I have a good mind (to do so), (lit.) there is an ‘inn’ in me” ✧ PE22/165
S. mi Forod “in [the] North” ✧ PE23/133
S. os i Veleglinn i edain agorer vi Veleriann “*from the Great Song that men made in Beleriand” ✧ VT50/5

Cognates

Q. mi “in”

Derivations

< ✶mī “in, within”
- < √MI/IMI “in, within, [ᴹ√] inside” ✧ PE17/92 (IMI); VT47/30 (imi)