A singer whose voice carries across water — a sound that finds you before you find it. Greek, Seirēnes. The voice is the whole of the word: what it calls you toward is never in the name.
Greek Seiren, of disputed further origin; a voice that reaches across water and finds a listener before the listener finds it — what it calls toward is never in the name.
A voice that reaches across distance and finds a listener before the listener finds it — what it calls toward is never contained in the name itself.