Eldamo : Early Quenya : soile

ᴱQ. soile n. “cleansing” (Category: Pure, Clean)

⚠️ᴱQ. soilë, n. “cleansing” (Category: Pure, Clean): ᴺQ. !poitië “(act of) cleaning, cleansing”

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

Reference ✧ QL/86 ✧ “cleansing”

Cognates

G. sovri “cleansing”

Derivations

< ᴱ√SOVO “wash” ✧ QL/86 (SOW̯O)

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√SOW̯O > soile

[sowilē] > [sowile] > [souile] > [soile]

✧ QL/86