falathren

noun/adjective. of the shore

falathren

noun/adjective. Shore-language (one of the names for Common Speech)

falathren

proper name. Shore-language

In the drafts of the Lord of the Rings appendices, a Late Noldorin [Sindarin] name for the common tongue spoken along the shores of western Middle-earth that would eventually develop into Westron (PM/32). This name is most likely a combination of falas “shore” and the adjective suffix -ren, after undergoing the phonetic change: [[s|medial [s] became [θ] before [l], [r]]].

Conceptual Development: The word N. Falathren also appeared in The Etymologies from the 1930s, but there it was an adjective referring to the region or Elvish folk of the Falas (Ety/PHAL). Their dialect of Ilkorin was called Falathrin (LR/170), of which a few examples appeared: Fal. Ariad(or) (Ety/AR²) and Fal. galbreth (Ety/BERÉTH).

Elements

Word	Gloss
falas	“beach, shore, strand, surf(line)”
-ren	“adjective suffix”

falathren

of the shore

(pl. felethrin)

falas

shore, foaming shore

(pl. felais) (beach, coast, strand, line of surf; the word was especially used of the western seaboard of Beleriand) (VT42:15). Adj.

faur

shore

(beach), pl. foer, coll. pl. forath (VT46:15)

habad

shore

(i chabad, o chabad), pl. hebaid (i chebaid). Archaic pl. hebeid (LR:386).

rhast

shore

(?i thrast or ?i rast – the lenition product of rh is uncertain), pl. rhaist (?idh raist).