Middle Primitive Elvish
ros
root. distil, drip
Derivatives
ros
root. *plain
Derivatives
- Ilk. rost “plain, wide land between mountains” ✧ Ety/ROS²
Element in
phal
root. foam
Derivatives
- ᴹQ. falasse “beach” ✧ Ety/PHAL
- ᴹQ. falle “foam” ✧ Ety/PHAL
- ᴹQ. falma “(crested) wave” ✧ Ety/PHAL
- ᴹQ. falmar(in) “sea-spirit, nymph, sea-spirit, nymph, [ᴱQ.] sea-fay (male), spirit of the sea foam” ✧ Ety/PHAL
- N. falas “beach, shore” ✧ Ety/PHAL
- N. falf “foam, breaker, foam, breaker, [G.] wave” ✧ Ety/PHAL
- On. phalsa- “to foam” ✧ Ety/PHAL
- N. faltha- “to foam” ✧ Ety/PHAL
Element in
- ᴹQ. Falanyel “*Beach Singer” ✧ Ety/PHAL
- N. Men Falros “*Place of Splashing Foam”
- ᴹT. Fallinel “Teleri” ✧ Ety/NYEL; Ety/PHAL
Variations
- PHAL/PHÁLAS ✧ Ety/PHAL; Ety/SPAL
- PHAL/PHALAS ✧ EtyAC/SPAL
An unglossed root in The Etymologies of the 1930s with the derivative Ilk. rost “plain, wide land between mountains”, an element in the names Ilk. Nivrost “West Vale” and Ilk. Radhrost “East Vale” (Ety/ROS²). In later versions of The Silmarillion these names became S. Nevrast “Hither Shore” (S/119) and S. Talath Rhúnen “East Vale” (S/124), making it likely that ᴹ√ROS “✱plain” was abandoned.