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!
piog
noun. berry
Cognates
Element in
dod
noun. berry
The word G. dod “berry” appeared in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s above G. dod- “fall down, drop” (GL/30), so perhaps originally meaning “✱a thing dropped”.
Neo-Sindarin: I would retain ᴺS. dod “berry” for purposes of Neo-Sindarin as a derivative of the Neo-Root ᴺ√DOT “drop”.
Derivations
- ᴱ√ÐOTO “drop, fall”
Element in
- G. gwindod “elder tree; elderberry” ✧ GL/45
A word in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “berry”, the cognate of ᴱQ. piukka “blackberry” (GL/64; QL/74). The io is probably the result of the Gnomish sound change whereby iu became io (PE15/13).
Neo-Sindarin: In Sindarin, iu became ŷ, so this word might be adapted as ᴺS. pŷg, but I prefer to use ᴺS. dod for “berry”.