Early Quenya
aipio
noun. cherry
Cognates
- G. aibin “cherry (tree)” ✧ GL/18
Derivations
- ᴱ√AYA “honour, revere” ✧ GL/18
Elements
Word Gloss aina “holy, revered, worshipful” pio “berry, plum, cherry” Variations
- Aipio ✧ PME/034
Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
A word appearing as ᴱQ. aipio “cherry, holy berry” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, a combination of ᴱ√AYA “revere” and ᴱQ. pio “berry” (QL/34, 74). It was also mentioned in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa and Gnomish Lexicon (PME/34; GL/18).
Neo-Quenya: Since √AYA(N) “blessed” continues to appear in Tolkien’s later writings, I’d retain ᴺQ. aipio “cherry” for purposes of Neo-Quenya.