An transitive and intransitive verb in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “increase, multiply” under the early root ᴱ√OLO, with distinct transitive and intransitive past tenses olonte and ōle (QL/069).
Early Quenya
ole
cardinal. three
ole
very, much, intensive
olde
adverb. very, much
ole-
prefix. intensive
uole kúvion
proper name. Man in the Moon, Moonking
olto-
verb. to increase, multiply
oli-
prefix. intensive
aka-
prefix. intensive
are-
prefix. intensive
ari-
prefix. intensive
olwa
adjective. much
olya
adverb. much
sa-
prefix. intensive
Name of the Man in the Moon in the earliest Lost Tales (LT1/193), his second name is clearly related to kú “crescent moon”, as suggested by Christopher Tolkien (LT1A/Uolë Kúvion), but the meaning of his first name is unclear. In the Gnomish Lexicon his first name was instead Óle (GL/27, GL/72).