Eldamo : Middle Primitive Elvish : POY

ᴹ√POY root. “*clean”

ᴹ√POY root. “*clean”: ᴱ√ALU “cleanse, dress”; ?ᴱ√FASA “wash”

This root appeared as unglossed ᴱ√POYO in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives like ᴱQ. poika “clean, tidy” and ᴱQ. poita- “cleanse” (QL/75). It also had derivatives in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon such as G. puictha- “clean, wipe out; condone, do away with, pardon, forgive” and G. puig “clean, neat, tidy” (GL/64). It reappeared as unglossed ᴹ√POY in The Etymologies of the 1930s with derivatives like ᴹQ. poika/N. puig “clean” (Ety/POY).

Reference ✧ Ety/POY

^ᴺ√SOW “wash, *bathe” is for cleaning a person versus POY “*clean”

Derivatives

> ᴹ✶poikā “clean, pure” ✧ Ety/POY
- > ᴹQ. poika “clean, pure” ✧ Ety/POY
  - ⇒ ᴺQ. !úpoica “unclean”
- > N. puig “clean, tidy, neat” ✧ Ety/POY
> ᴹQ. poinesse “?cleanliness”
> ᴺQ. poita- “to cleanse, *clean”
- ⇒ ᴺQ. !poitië “(act of) cleaning, cleansing”
> ᴺS. ^puida- “to clean, tidy, cleanse, ⚠️purify”
- ⇒ ᴺS. !puidad “(act of) cleaning, cleansing”
> ᴺS. !puidh “wash, cleaning”
> ᴺS. !puiga- “to clean, wash”

ᴱ√POYO root. “*clean”

See ᴹ√POY for discussion.

Reference ✧ QL/75

Derivatives

> ᴱN. puig “clean”
- ⇒ ᴱN. dafuig “dirty”
> ᴱQ. poika “clean, tidy” ✧ QL/75
> ᴱQ. ‽poime “soap” ✧ QL/75
- ⇒ ᴱQ. poimine “lather, foam; mermaid” ✧ QL/75
> ᴱQ. poita- “to cleanse” ✧ QL/75
> ᴱQ. poitya- “to make clean, tidy, straighten” ✧ QL/75
> G. puictha- “to clean, wipe out; to condone, do away with, pardon, forgive”
> G. puidra- “to wash, cleanse, soap”
> G. puig “clean, neat, tidy”
> G. puim “soap”