S. Celos loc.
A stream in Gondor flowing into the river Sirith (LotR/875). It is a cognate of Q. celussë “freshet”, derived from a combination of ✶kelu- “flow out swiftly” and the primitive abstract-noun suffix ✶-ssē/-ssā (UTI/Celos). In Sindarin the short [u] became [o] as usual.
Conceptual Development: In Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s, this name first appeared in a list of rivers in Gondor as N. Kelos (TI/312). A shorter primitive form {kelut >>} ✶kelus “brook” appeared in the Common Eldarin: Verb Structure (EVS2) from the early 1950s (PE21/71).
References ✧ LotRI; UTI
Elements
| ✶kelu- | “to well up, flow (out swiftly), well forth” | ✧ UTI/Celos |
| ✶-ssē/-ssā | ✧ UTI/Celos (-sse/-ssa) |
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