S. Ossiriand loc. “Land of Seven Rivers”
A region in eastern Beleriand translated Ossiriand glossed “Land of Seven Rivers” (S/94), a reduction of primitive otoso “seven” combined with sîr “river” and the suffix -ian(d) “-land” (RC/384).
Conceptual Development: In the earliest Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s, this name first appeared as Assariad (SM/133) and on early maps as Ossiriath “of the Seven Rivers” (SM/233), but was soon revised to N. Ossiriand “Land of Seven Streams” (SM/116), the form it retained thereafter. Later in the 1930s its gloss was changed to “Land of Seven Rivers” (LR/128).
References ✧ LotR/469; LotRI; LT2I; MRI; PE17/81; PMI; RC/384; S/94; SA/sîr; SI; UTI; WJI
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| ✶otoso | “seven” | ||
| sîr | “river, stream” | ✧ SA/sîr | |
| -ian(d) | “-land, country” | ||
| Ossir | “Seven-rivers” | ✧ LotR/469; RC/384 | |
N. Ossiriand loc. “Land of Seven Rivers”
References ✧ LR/128, 135, 263; LRI; SM/116, 233; SMI/Assariand, Ossiriand; TII
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| ᴹ√OT/OTOS/OTOK | “seven” |
| sîr | “river” |
| -ian(d) | “-land” |
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