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.

Cognates

• G. piog “berry” ✧ LT2A/Silpion

Element in

• Eq. aipio “cherry”
• Eq. piosenna “holly” ✧ LT2A/Silpion; QL/074
• Eq. pi(o)pin “haws, fruit of hawthorns” ✧ QL/074
• Eq. pi(pi)nektar “whitethorn, hawthorn” ✧ QL/074
• Eq. piukka “blackberry” ✧ QL/074
• Eq. Silpion “Cherry-moon” ✧ LT2A/Silpion
• Eq. Valpio “Holy Cherry of Valinor” ✧ LT2A/Silpion
• Eq. torwa pior má tarasse “*the dark-brown fruit in the hand of the hawthorns” ✧ VT40/08

Variations

• pie ✧ PE16/143
• PIO ✧ QL/074