Early Quenya
pi(o)pin
noun. haws, fruit of hawthorns
Cognates
- G. pibin “small berry, haw”
Element in
- Eq. pi(pi)nektar “whitethorn, hawthorn”
Variations
- piopin ✧ PME/074; QL/074
- pipin ✧ PME/074; QL/074
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. piopin or pipin in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “the fruit of hawthorns, haws”, apparently a combination of ᴱQ. pio “berry” and ᴱ√PINI “✱small” (QL/74). Both piopin and pipin appeared in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa with the gloss “haws” (PME/74).
Neo-Quenya: I’d retain ᴺQ. piopin for purposes of Neo-Quenya for the fruit of hawthorns, since there is evidence that ✱√PI(N) “little” survived in Tolkien’s later writing.