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S. falas n. “beach, shore, strand, surf(line)” (Category: Shore, Beach)

S. falas, n. “beach, shore, strand, surf(line)” (Category: Shore, Beach)
G. farn “mark, boundary; shore”
N. faur “beach, shore”
G. flass “sea-marge, surf; foam; margin, ragged margin, fringe”
ᴱN. gwaithlos “*sea-shore”
ᴱN. plados “surf, land’s edge; [G.] oar”
G. sarofarn “the seashore”
G. saros “surf, sea”
ᴱN. thlos “shore; [G.] breaker”
G. tholos² “sea-marge”

A well-established word for “beach” or “shore”, derived from the root √PHAL “foam, splash” (PE17/62, 73).

Conceptual Development: In the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s this word appeared as G. falos “sea-marge, surf, coast, line; margin, fringe, edge” (GL/33), but it was G. falas “beach” in the contemporaneous Name-list to The Fall of Gondolin (PE15/24) as well as in names from this period such as G. Falas-a-’Wilb “Beach of Peace” and G. Falathron = “Ossë”. It appeared as N. falas “beach, shore” in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from the extended form ᴹ√PHÁLAS of the root ᴹ√PHAL “foam” (Ety/PHAL). Similar derivations appeared in Tolkien’s later writings well (PE17/62, 73).

References ✧ PE17/62, 73, 97; RC/18; SA/falas; VT42/15

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Phonetic Developments

PHAL > falas [pʰalasse] > [ɸalasse] > [falasse] > [falass] > [falas] ✧ PE17/62
PHAL > falas [pʰalasse] > [ɸalasse] > [falasse] > [falass] > [falas] ✧ PE17/73

N. falas n. “beach, shore” (Category: Shore, Beach)

See S. falas for discussion.

References ✧ Ety/PHAL

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feles plural ✧ Ety/PHAL

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ᴹ√PHAL/PHÁLAS > falas [pʰalasse] > [ɸalasse] > [falasse] > [falass] > [falas] ✧ Ety/PHAL
ᴹ√PHAL/PHÁLAS > feles [pʰalassi] > [ɸalassi] > [falassi] > [felessi] > [feless] > [feles] ✧ Ety/PHAL

G. falos n. “sea-marge, surf, coast, line, beach; margin, fringe, edge” (Category: Shore, Beach)

See S. falas for discussion.

References ✧ GL/33; LT1A/Falman; LT2A/Falasquil; PE15/24

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ᴱ√FALA² ✧ GL/33 (fal-¹); LT1A/Falman
#-os¹ ✧ GL/33 (#-os)

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