A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “meadow” (GL/34). It also had an archaic variant form †lair, but Tolkien rejected this (GL/52). It was probably derived from the early root ᴱ√LAẎA “be alive, flourish” as suggested by Christopher Tolkien (LT1A/Tári-Laisi; QL/52).
Gnomish
fladwen
noun. meadow, grassland
fladweth
noun. meadow, grassland
glair
noun. meadow
A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “meadow, grassland”, an elaboration of G. flad “sward, grass”; it also had a variant form [flad]weth (GL/34).