Subject: "Whisper"?
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Posted on: 2009-07-10 14:39:00 UTC

Sindarin isn't my forte, but "Elros" is translated variously as "Elf of the Spray" or "Star-foam" (Encyclopedia of Arda). To me, it looks like the -ros suffix is "foam" or "spray" (probably the same word), rather than "whisper".

Looking at the Quenya words (which is more my field), "spray" is rosse, while "whisper" is "lussa" or "lusse". I can see that becoming "rus" in Sindarin, but I'm not certain whether any vowel shifts occured...

hS, who still doesn't know Sindarin

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