N. Beleghir loc. “Great River”
Precursor to the river name Anduin appearing in the Lord of the Rings from the 1940s (RS/410), a combination of beleg “great” and the lenited form of sîr “river”.
See S. Anduin for further discussion.
References ✧ RS/410; RSI; TII/Anduin
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| beleg | “great, large” | |
| sîr | “river” | soft-mutation |