Quenya 

celumë

noun. flowing, flood (tide), stream, flow(ing), stream, flood (tide); [ᴱQ.] fountain, spring

A word for a stream or flow of water or other liquid, also for a flood tide, derived from the root ᴹ√KEL(U) (MC/223; Ety/KEL).

Conceptual Development: In the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, the words ᴱQ. kelu and kelume were glossed “stream” and derived from ᴱ√KELE or ᴱ√KELU “flow” (QL/46). In the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa, however, ᴱQ. kelu was glossed “fountain, spring” (PME/46). ᴹQ. kelume “stream, flow” appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s as a derivative of ᴹ√KEL “go, run (especially of water), flow away downhill” (Ety/KEL), and kelume appeared in the glossary to the 1960s version of the Markirya poem with the glosses “flowing, flood (tide), stream” (MC/223).

Derivations

  • KEL “flow (down or away), run (of water or rivers), go away, flow (down or away), run (of water or rivers), go away, [ᴹ√] run away especially downwards or at end; [ᴱ√] ooze, trickle”

Element in

Variations

  • kelume ✧ MC/223
Quenya [MC/222; MC/223] Group: Eldamo. Published by

sirea

adjective. flowing, liquid

Quenya [PE 22:111] Group: Mellonath Daeron. Published by

sirilla

flowing

sirilla participle *"flowing", "Qenya" participle of siri- "flow" (Narqelion, cf. QL:xiv)

celumë

stream, flow

celumë ("k")noun "stream, flow" (KEL, LT1:257); locative pl. celumessen ("k") in Markirya (ëar-celumessen is translated "in the flowing sea", lit. *"in sea-streams").

celu

stream

celu _("k")_noun "stream" (LT1:257; rather celumë in LotR-style Quenya)

Sindarin 

sirith

noun. flowing

Sindarin [S/437, VT/42:11] Group: SINDICT. Published by

sirith

place name. Flowing

A river in Gondor appearing on the maps of The Lord of the Rings (LotR/1186), it is simply the gerund sirith “flowing” used as a name (SA/sîr, VT42/11).

Conceptual Development: In Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s, N. Sirith appeared the list of rivers of Gondor (TI/312).

sirith

noun. flowing

Element in

  • S. Sirith “Flowing” ✧ SA/sîr

Elements

WordGloss
SIR“flow”
-th“abstract noun”

Variations

  • Sirith ✧ SA/sîr; VT42/11
Sindarin [SA/sîr; VT42/11] Group: Eldamo. Published by

sîr

stream

_ n. _stream. >> Nanduhirion

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:37] -. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

cell

flowing

(adj., used of water) cell (running), lenited gell, pl. cill

cell

flowing

(running), lenited gell, pl. cill

sirith

flowing

(noun) sirith (i hirith, o sirith) (stream), no distinct pl. except with article (i sirith)

sirith

flowing

(i hirith, o sirith) (stream), no distinct pl. except with article (i sirith)

celeth

stream

(noun) 1) celeth (i geleth, o cheleth), pl. celith (i chelith), 2) sirith (i hirith, o sirith) (flowing), no distinct pl. except with article (i sirith), 3) nên (water, lake, pool, waterland), construct nen, pl. nîn, 4) rant (watercourse, water-channel, lode, vein), pl. raint (idh raint), coll. pl. rannath.

celeth

stream

(i geleth, o cheleth), pl. celith (i chelith)

nên

stream

(water, lake, pool, waterland), construct nen, pl. nîn

rant

stream

(watercourse, water-channel, lode, vein), pl. raint (idh raint), coll. pl. rannath.

sirith

stream

(i hirith, o sirith) (flowing), no distinct pl. except with article (i sirith)

Primitive elvish

sīru

noun. stream

Derivations

  • SIR “flow”

Variations

  • sīrŭ ✧ PE21/80
Primitive elvish [PE21/80] Group: Eldamo. Published by

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Gnomish

duif

noun. stream

Derivations

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ✶duiwe > duif[duiwe] > [duive] > [duiv]✧ GL/31

Early Noldorin

sîr

noun. stream

Changes

  • sírhír “stream” ✧ PE13/147

Element in

Variations

  • sír ✧ PE13/147 (sír)
Early Noldorin [PE13/147] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Quenya

síre

noun. stream

Derivations

  • ᴱ√SIÐI “flow” ✧ LT1A/Sirion; QL/084

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√SIŘI > sīre[sīðē] > [sīðe] > [sīze] > [sīre]✧ QL/084

Variations

  • sírë ✧ LT1A/Sirion
  • sīre ✧ PME/084; QL/084
Early Quenya [LT1A/Sirion; PME/084; QL/084] Group: Eldamo. Published by