Re: congrammar update

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>>one also hears rumahnya orang, probably a Javanism or other regional
>>influence.
>BP Jonsson asked:
>What is the basic meaning of this -nya morpheme?  I used to own TY
>Indonesian, but it's gone AWOL.  I ask coz it is awfully similar to the
>Quenya pronominal stems, which generally feature _Cye_, or _-Cya-_ as
>possessive suffixes (which go between the stem and the case endings, as in
>Hungarian.  I ask because I'm into the various natlang inspirations JRRT
>may have had.  Is it possible that he had partially Javanese inspiration
here?
>
Basically -nya is the Malay/Indo. marker of 3d pers. possessive (it also
represents 3d pers. agent in the passive construction e.g. _di-dengar-nya_
'heard by him/her', but that's a secondary use).  I don't know whether JRRT
knew any Malay, or knew colleagues who would have known it.  It's possible,
but it strikes me as rather far afield from his main linguistic
interests????