Eldamo : Early Quenya : soina

ᴱQ. soina adj. “clean” (Category: Pure, Clean)

⚠️ᴱQ. soina, adj. “clean” (Category: Pure, Clean): ᴹQ. poica “clean, pure, [ᴱQ.] tidy”

An adjective in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “clean” based on the early root ᴱ√SOVO or ᴱ√SOW̯O (QL/86), perhaps from *sowinē with óu̯i > oi (PE12/13).

Reference ✧ QL/86 ✧ “clean”

Cognates

G. sôn¹ “pure, clean”

Derivations

< ᴱ√SOVO “wash” ✧ QL/86 (SOW̯O)

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√SOW̯O > soina

[sowinā] > [sowina] > [souina] > [soina]

✧ QL/86