Extracting singular from collective nouns ...

Hi,

I'm probably asking something already discussed or very clear to everybody yet, but I'm new to the website and I hope you will forgive me.

My doubt is: what if I have to address a single individual of a people, the name of which has, for example, the suffix "-rim"? I mean: the people known as the Elves of the Falas are the "Falathrim", but one single elf belonging to the Falathrim folk is ...?

Thank you.

/G.

One could use the usual agental suffix -ron, and for females -ril.

• one male/unspecified Falathron, one female Falathril;

• or the construction edhel Falathren, "Shore-ish elf;"

• or Falassedhel/Falassel, based on Thinnedhel.