pie

noun. berry

piek

noun. pin

A word for “pin” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with variants piek and piet as well as a stem form piekk- (QL/73).

piet

noun. pin

piekta-

verb. to prick, pin-prick

A word appearing as piekta- or pietya- “prick, pin-prick” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, verb forms of ᴱQ. piek or piet “pin” (QL/73).

pieksin

noun. brooch

pietya-

verb. to prick, pin-prick

mindl

noun. piece of flesh

A word for a “piece of flesh” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s derived from the early root ᴱ√MIMI (QL/61). It seems to be an example of the Early Quenya phonetic rule whereby [[eq|final nasal + [ḷ] became [ndḷ]]], so that -mḷ > -ndḷ (PE12/25).

mitta

noun. piece, bit (of indeterminate size)

lanqa

noun. piece of fortune, lot, luck, happen, hap

ter-

verb. *to pierce

The verb ᴱQ. ter- appeared untranslated in a list of Qenya Verb Forms from the 1910s (PE14/28). Patrick Wynne and Christopher Gilson suggested it might be based on the early root ᴱ√teře “pierce” from this same period (PE14/28 note #4; PME/91).

Conceptual Development: The root √TER “pierce” appeared several times in Tolkien’s later writings (Ety/TER; PE17/33), so I would use ᴺQ. ter- “to pierce” for purposes of Neo-Quenya. For example, Helge Fauskanger had the active participle ᴺQ. térala “piercing” for his NQNT (NQNT). I would use the active participle form terila myself, but I think the basic verb ter- is perfectly viable.

kulurin

noun. orange; piece of gold

min

noun. bit, piece

pere-

verb. to go through, pass, pierce; to endure, undergo, experience; to penetrate, get to understand; to last

tereva

adjective. sharp, piercing, shrill; acute (pain)

pio

noun. berry, plum, cherry

A word appearing as pseudo-root ᴱQ. PIO “plum, (berry), cherry” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, which Tolkien indicated was possibly connected to the early roots ᴱ√PIẆI or ᴱ√PINI (QL/74). Elsewhere in the document Tolkien said pio was a type of fruit “like cherries, plums, etc.” (QL/61). In Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s, Tolkien instead had ᴱQ. pie “berry” (PE16/143).

Neo-Quenya: I’d retain ᴺQ. pio for purposes of Neo-Quenya for small fruits with seeds like plums, cherries and berries.

tendl

noun. string

A word appearing in The Qenya Phonology of the 1910s whose plural tendilli was glossed “pieces of string” (PE12/25). Its root was given as ᴱ√TEME, which elsewhere was glossed “tie” (QL/91).

kulu

noun. gold

keny-

verb. to prick

koli-

verb. to prick