helin noun "violet" or "pansy" (LT1:262)
Quenya
pirindë
flower that opened and shut quickly with any change of light at [?some ?not] even a pansy closed
helin
noun. pansy
helin
violet
Sindarin
pirin
noun. a flower that opened ans shut quickly with any change of light at [some? not?] even a pansy closed
n. Bot. a flower that opened ans shut quickly with any change of light at [some? not?] even a pansy closed. Q. pirinde, pirne.
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Early Quenya
helin
noun. pansy
A word appearing as ᴱQ. helin “pansy” in the Qenya Lexicon and Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa of the 1910s (QL/39; PME/39). It was unrelated to the early root ᴱ√HELE having to do with ice (QL/39).
Neo-Quenya: The root √KHEL remained the basis for ice words in Tolkien’s later writings, but if helin “pansy” could coexist with the earlier form of this root, I think it can coexist with the later form as well. ᴺQ. helin “pansy” is worth keeping for purposes of Neo-Quenya since it is the basis for several words for purple flowers and colours. The word helin and its derivatives might be reconceived as being related to the 1930s root ᴹ√ƷEL “sky”, which had derived words having to do with “(pale) blue”.
helinille
noun. violet
English
Pansy Baggins
Pansy Baggins
Pansy is a small garden plant of the violet family. The word derives from French pensée "she who is thought".
pirindë noun "a flower that opened and shut quickly with any change of light at [?some ?not] even a pansy closed" (PE17:146; reading uncertain and meaning obscure; read perhaps "…at [which] not even a pansy closed") Also pirnë.