sirith

noun. flowing

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

Word	Gloss
SIR	“flow”
-th	“abstract noun”

Variations

• Sirith ✧ SA/sîr; VT42/11

siriol

adjective. flowing, fluent, liquid, melliflous

@@@ -iol is not a normal adjective suffix in later Sindarin, but in this case it could come from the root √SIR

Derivations

• √SIR “flow”

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)

cell

flowing

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

cell

adjective. flowing

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”

cell

flowing

(running), lenited gell, pl. cill