-s

1 3rd person sg. pronominal ending "he/him, she/her, it" VT49:48, 51, occurring in caris *“he/she/it does” VT49:16, PE17:129, caitas *“it lies” PE17:65, tentanes “it pointed” VT49:26, tulis *”she comes” VT49:19, eques q.v., anes see ná \#1, also in object position in camnelyes, caritas, caritalyas, melinyes, tiruvantes, and utúvienyes, q.v. Tolkien mentions -s as an “objective” ending for the 3rd person sg. in PE17:110. The longer form -së perhaps with personal meaning “he, she” only is said to be “rare” VT49:51; cf. násë “he is”, nésë “he was” see ná \#1. In nésë the ending is suggested to be shortened from -sse VT49:28, an ending that may also be attested in the untranslated verbal form tankassen PE17:76, where it is perhaps followed by a second pronominal ending -n *”me”. According to PE17:129, the 3rd person sg. ending at one stage appeared as -ze “when pronominal affixes followed” Tolkien citing the form carize-, e.g. apparently *carizet for “he makes them”; normally z would later become r, but it actually became historically: reverted to s by analogy with the short form caris as well as the independent pronoun se. Exilic Quenya would then evidently have e.g. *cariset for “he makes them”, with a rare example of intervocalic s that is not derived from older þ. 2 ending for the mysterious case sometimes called "respective", actually probably a shorter variant of the locative in -ssë. Pl. -is, dual -tes, partitive pl. -lis.