A word for “abundant” in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from primitive ᴹ✶ubrā under the root ᴹ√UB “abound” (Ety/UB). There is some evidence that √UB >> √UM in Tolkien’s later writings (VT48/32), but that conceivably could still produce ovor < umrā.
Conceptual Development: Early Noldorin word-lists of the 1920s had ᴱN. odog “much, abundant” (PE13/151), which in the contemporaneous Early Noldorin Grammar was glossed “large in quantity, much, abundant” (PE13/125). The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had G. odog “mighty, great; violent, excessive, exceeding; very” (GL/62).
A word for “abundant” in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from primitive ᴹ✶ubrā under the root ᴹ√UB “abound” (Ety/UB). There is some evidence that √UB >> √UM in Tolkien’s later writings (VT48/32), but that conceivably could still produce ovor < umrā.
Conceptual Development: Early Noldorin word-lists of the 1920s had ᴱN. odog “much, abundant” (PE13/151), which in the contemporaneous Early Noldorin Grammar was glossed “large in quantity, much, abundant” (PE13/125). The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had G. odog “mighty, great; violent, excessive, exceeding; very” (GL/62).