sirion (i hirion, o sirion), pl. siryn (i siryn).
Sindarin
sirion
place name. Great River
Derivations
- ✶siriānā “Sirion” ✧ PE17/042
Element in
- Q. Siriondil “*Sirion-lover”
- S. Eithel Sirion “Well of Sirion”
- S. Tol Sirion “*Island of Sirion”
Elements
Word Gloss sîr “river, stream” iaun “wide, extensive, large, roomy, vast, huge” Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶siriānā > Sirion [siriānā] > [siriāna] > [siriǭna] > [siriauna] > [siriaun] > [sirion] ✧ PE17/042
sirion
great river
The Great River of Beleriand (S/120), a combination of sîr “river” and the adjective iaun “wide”, reduced to its suffixal form -ion also seen in the names of lands (PE17/42).
Conceptual Development: This river was named G. Sirion in the earliest Lost Tales (LT1/238) and was explained as an archaic word for “river” in the Gnomish Lexicon (GL/67). The name N. Sirion appeared in The Etymologies from the 1930s as an elaboration of N. sîr (Ety/SIR). The derivation given above appeared in Tolkien’s Words, Phrases and Passages from the Lord of the Rings from the late 1950s or early 1960s (PE17/42). In an early name list its Qenya equivalent was given as ᴱQ. Sirion as well (PE13/102).