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Q. sír(ë) (síri-) n. “river” (Category: Brook, Stream, River)

Q. sír(ë) (síri-), n. “river, ⚠️[ᴱQ.] stream” (Category: Brook, Stream, River)
ᴱQ. sindi “river”

The most common Quenya word for “river”, derived from the root √SIR “flow”.

Conceptual Development: This word first appeared as ᴱQ. sīre “stream” as a derivative of ᴱ√SIŘI [SIÐI] (QL/84), and this form and gloss also appeared in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/84). The form ᴹQ. siri- “river” appeared in the Declension of Nouns (DN) from the early 1930s, along with uninflected sire with short i and various inflected forms with siry- (PE21/10). The form sīre “river” with long ī appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s as a derivative of ᴹ√SIR “flow” (Ety/SIR; EtyAC/SIR). In several notes from the mid-1960s, it appeared in monosyllabic form sír (PE17/65) or sīr (VT49/17), but it had dual form siryat from the late 1960s implying a stem form of sirĭ- and a development similar to that of DN from the early 1930s (VT47/11).

Neo-Eldarin: Its form síre is probably better known and more commonly used in Neo-Quenya. For example this is the typical form in Helge Fauskanger’s Neo-Quenya New Testament (NQNT).

References ✧ PE17/65; VT47/11; VT49/17

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siryat dual “two rivers” ✧ VT47/11

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ᴹQ. síre (síri-) n. “river” (Category: Brook, Stream, River)

See Q. sír(ë) for discussion.

References ✧ Ety/SIR; EtyAC/SIR; PE21/10

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sire accusative   ✧ PE21/10
sirya accusative   ✧ PE21/10
sirer dative   ✧ PE21/10
siryen dative   ✧ PE21/10
siryo genitive   ✧ PE21/10
sire nominative   ✧ PE21/10
siren nominative   ✧ PE21/10
siri- stem “river” ✧ PE21/10

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ᴹ√SIR > sīre [sīre] ✧ Ety/SIR

ᴱQ. síre n. “stream” (Category: Brook, Stream, River)

See Q. sír(ë) for discussion.

References ✧ LT1A/Sirion; PME/84; QL/84

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Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√SIŘI > sīre [sīðē] > [sīðe] > [sīze] > [sīre] ✧ QL/84