Eldamo : Quenya : celussë

Q. celussë n. “freshet, water falling out swiftly from a rocky spring” (Category: Spring, Well)

Q. celussë, n. “freshet, water falling out swiftly from a rocky spring” (Category: Spring, Well): ᴱQ. cecta “jet, spring”; ᴹQ. celulindë “spring”

Quenya equivalent of the river name S. Celos, glossed “freshet, water falling out swiftly from a rocky spring” and derived from a combination of ✶kelu- “flow (swiftly)” and the abstract noun suffix -ssë (UTI/Celos). A shorter primitive form {kelut >>} ✶kelus “brook” appeared in the Common Eldarin: Verb Structure (EVS2) from the early 1950s (PE21/71).

Reference ✧ UTI/Celos ✧ kelussë “freshet, water falling out swiftly from a rocky spring”

Elements

✶kelu-	“to well up, flow (out swiftly), well forth”	✧ UTI/Celos
✶-ssē/-ssā		✧ UTI/Celos (-sse/-ssa)

Cognates

S. Celos ✧ UTI/Celos

Derivations

< ✶kelus “brook”
- < √KEL “flow (down or away), run (of water or rivers), go away”