rim

great number

_ n. _great number. >> rimb

rim

noun. host, great number, people (of one kind or origin), host, great number, people (of one kind or origin), [N.] crowd

Cognates

• Q. rimbë “host, great number, host, great number, [ᴹQ.] crowd” ✧ Let/382; PE17/050; SA/rim; UT/318

Derivations

• ᴹ√RIM “abound; large number”

Element in

• S. Galadhrim “Tree-people” ✧ PE17/050
• S. Mithrim “Sindar” ✧ SA/rim
• S. Naugrim “Dwarves” ✧ SA/rim
• S. -rim “collective or group plural”
• S. Rochirrim “Horse-lords” ✧ UT/318
• S. Rohirrim “Horse-lords” ✧ Let/382
• S. Thangorodrim “Mountains of Tyranny” ✧ SA/rim

Variations

• rīm ✧ Let/382
• rim(b) ✧ PE17/050 (rim(b))

rim

noun. cold pool or lake (in mountains)

rim

noun. crowd, host, great number

rim

a people of one kind or origin

_n. _a people of one kind or origin. >> gwaith, lî

rimb

great number

_ n. _great number. >> rim

-rim

suffix. collective or group plural

Cognates

• Q. rimbë “host, great number, host, great number, [ᴹQ.] crowd” ✧ Let/178

Element in

• S. Crissaegrim “*Cleft Mountain Peaks”
• S. Falathrim “Elves of the Falas, Wave-folk”
• S. Galadhrim “Tree-people”
• S. Gondolindrim “People of Gondolin”
• S. Gonnhirrim “Masters of Stone”
• S. Gwathuirim “Dunlendings”
• S. Halethrim “People of Haleth”
• S. Haradrim “Southrons, (lit.) People of the Harad” ✧ Let/178
• S. Iathrim “*People of the Fence”
• S. Mithrim “Sindar”
• S. Naugrim “Dwarves”
• ᴺS. othrim “army”
• S. Rochirrim “Horse-lords” ✧ Let/178
• S. Rohirrim “Horse-lords”
• S. Thangorodrim “Mountains of Tyranny”
• S. Thindrim “Sindar”

Elements

Word	Gloss
rim	“host, great number, people (of one kind or origin), host, great number, people (of one kind or origin), [N.] crowd”

Variations

• rim ✧ Let/178; UTI/Edhelrim

rim

cold pool/lake

rim; no distinct pl. form except with article (idh rim), coll. pl. rimmath. Note: a homophone means ”crowd, great number, host”.

rim

cold pool or lake

rim; no distinct pl. form except with article (idh rim), coll. pl. rimmath. Note: a homophone means ”crowd, great number, host”.

rim

host

(great number, crowd), no distinct pl. form except with article (idh rim), coll. pl. rimmath. Note: a homophone means ”cold pool or lake”.

rim

cold pool or lake

; no distinct pl. form except with article (idh rim), coll. pl. rimmath. Note: a homophone means ”crowd, great number, host”.

rim

cold pool/lake

; no distinct pl. form except with article (idh rim), coll. pl. rimmath. Note: a homophone means ”crowd, great number, host”.

rim

great number

(crowd, host), no distinct pl. form except with article (idh rim), coll. pl. rimmath. Note: a homophone means ”cold pool or lake”.

rim

crowd

(great number, host), no distinct pl. form except with article (idh rim). Note: a homophone means ”cold pool or lake”.

rim

noun. cold pool or lake (in mountains)

lî

noun. a people of one kind or origin

_n. _a people of one kind or origin. >> gwaith, rim

hoth

host

(noun) 1) hoth (i choth, o choth) (crowd, horde), pl. hyth (i chyth). 2) rim (great number, crowd), no distinct pl. form except with article (idh rim), coll. pl. rimmath. Note: a homophone means ”cold pool or lake”. 3) gwaith (i **waith) (manhood, manpower, troop of able-bodied men, regiment, people, region; wilderness), no distinct pl. form except with article (in gwaith). WOLF-HOST, see under WEREWOLF (concerning gaurhoth**).

hoth

crowd

1) hoth (i choth, o choth) (host, horde), pl. hyth (i chyth), 2) ovras (heap), pl. evrais (archaic övrais), coll. pl. ovrassath, 3) rim (great number, host), no distinct pl. form except with article (idh rim). Note: a homophone means ”cold pool or lake”.

lae

great number

lae (no distinct pl. form) (VT45:27), also rim (crowd, host), no distinct pl. form except with article (idh rim), coll. pl. rimmath. Note: a homophone means ”cold pool or lake”.

lae

great number

1) lae (no distinct pl. form) (VT45:27), 2) rim (crowd, host), no distinct pl. form except with article (idh rim), coll. pl. rimmath. Note: a homophone means ”cold pool or lake”.

lae

great number

(no distinct pl. form) (VT45:27), also rim (crowd, host), no distinct pl. form except with article (idh** rim), coll. pl. rimmath**. Note: a homophone means ”cold pool or lake”.

ael

pool

1) ael (aelin-, pl. aelin) (lake, mere). In ”Noldorin” oel, pl. oelin. 2)

cai

hedge

cai (i gai, o chai), pl. cî (i chî);

daedhelos

great fear

daedhelos (i naedhelos, o ndaedhelos), pl. daedhelys (i ndaedhelys). Coll. pl. daedhelossath. A side-form ends in -oth instead of -os. The word appears in the mutated form "ndae<u>d</u>elos" in LotR Appendix F, but since the second element must be delos "abhorrence" and it would surely be lenited following a vowel, this would seem to be one of the cases where Tolkien wrote d even though dh would be technically correct. Another term for GREAT FEAR is goe (i **oe) (terror), no distinct pl. form except with article (i ngoe** = i ñoe).

goe

great fear

goe (i **oe) (terror), no distinct pl. form except with article (i ngoe** = i ñoe);

gwanod

number

(noun) gwanod (i **wanod) (tale), pl. gwenyd (in gwenyd**),

loeg

pool

loeg (no distinct pl. form: loeg is also atttested with plural meaning) (VT45:29). 4) nên (water, lake, stream, waterland), construct nen, pl. nîn.

lîn

pool

lîn (lake), no distinct pl. form, but coll. pl. #**liniath (isolated from Hithliniath**, WJ:194). 3)

lîn

lake

1) lîn (pool), no distinct pl. form, but coll. pl. #liniath (isolated from Hithliniath, WJ:194). 2) ael (aelin-, pl. aelin) (pool, mere). In ”Noldorin” oel, pl. oelin. 3) nên (water, pool, stream, waterland), construct nen, pl. nîn**. **

nedia

number

(verb) *nedia- (reckon, count) (i nedia, in nediar). Cited in archaic form ”noedia” = nödia- (LR:378 s.v. NOT).

ovra

abound

ovra- (i ovra, in ovrar)

ring

cold

(adj.) ring (no distinct pl. form),

rîw

edge

*rîw (construct riw) (hem, border), no distinct pl. form except with article (idh rîw). Suggested Sindarin form of ”Noldorin” rhîf.

sîdh

peace

sîdh (i hîdh), no distinct pl. form except with article (i sîdh) if there is any pl. form. 1) aeg (point, thorn). No distinct pl. form. (but aeglir can be used for a range of mountain peaks). Note: aeg is also used as adj. "sharp, pointed, piercing". 2) mîn (i vîn), no distinct pl. form except with article (i mîn), coll. pl. míniath. Note: homophones include the numeral ”one” and the adjective ”isolated, first, towering”. 3) egnas (sharp point; literally "thorn-point"), pl. egnais, coll. pl. egnassath.

-ath

suffix. collective or group plural

Derivations

• ✶-stā “collective suffix”
  • √SAT “space, place; divide, apportion, mark off”
• ✶atta “two” ✧ VT48/19
  • √ATATA “two, two; [ᴹ√] again, back” ✧ VT48/19

Element in

• S. Ann-thennath “*Long-shorts”
• S. Argonath “Pillars of the Kings, (lit.) Royal Stones” ✧ RC/347
• S. Ennorath “(All) the Middle-lands” ✧ PE17/025
• S. Hurinionath “Descendants of Húrin”
• S. Minhiriath “Between the Rivers”
• S. Remmirath “Netted Jewels”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶atta > -ath	[-atta] > [-attʰa] > [-aθθa] > [-aθθ] > [-aθ]	✧ VT48/19

Variations

• ath ✧ Let/427; PE17/025; PE17/025

ael

noun. lake, pool, mere

cai

noun. hedge

cai

noun. hedge

Cognates

• Q. cëa “*hedge” ✧ PE17/101

Derivations

• √KAY “lie, lie, [ᴹ√] lie down; [ᴱ√] rest, dwell” ✧ PE17/101
• ✶kegyā “hedge” ✧ UT/282
  • ✶KEG “snag, barb” ✧ UT/282

Element in

• S. Morgai “Black Fence” ✧ PE17/101; UT/282

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
√KAYA > gai	[kaja] > [kaia] > [kai]	✧ PE17/101
✶kegyā > cai	[kegjā] > [kegja] > [keɣja] > [keɣia] > [keɣi] > [keiɣ] > [kei] > [kai]	✧ UT/282

hoth

noun. host, crowd, horde (nearly always in a bad sense)

lae

noun. great number

lanc

noun. sharp edge (not of tools), sudden end (as a cliff-edge, or the clean edge of things made by hand or built)

loeg

noun. pool

loeg

noun. pool

lîn

noun. pool

lô

noun. shallow lake, fenland

ring

adjective. cold

rîw

noun. edge, hem, border

îdh

noun. peace

peace, tranquillity

aearon

great ocean

also Gaearon (i** ’Aearon), pl. Gaearyn (i** Ngaearyn = *i Ñaearyn). Also short form Gaeron (i** ‘Aeron), pl. Gaeryn (i** Ngaeryn = i Ñaeryn*). Coll. pl. Gaearonnath, Gaeronnath.

ael

pool

(aelin-, pl. aelin) (lake, mere). In ”Noldorin” oel, pl. oelin.

ael

lake

(aelin-, pl. aelin) (pool, mere). In ”Noldorin” oel, pl. oelin.

ardhon

great province

(great region, world), pl. erdhyn, coll. pl. ardhonnath.

both

small pool

(i moth, construct both) (puddle), pl. byth (i mbyth). David Salo would lengthen the vowel and read ✱bôth in Sindarin.

cai

hedge

(i gai, o chai), pl. cî (i chî);

caraes

hedge of spikes

(i garaes, o charaes). No distinct pl. form except with article (i charaes).

daedhelos

great fear/dread

(i** naedhelos, o ndaedhelos), pl. daedhelys (i** ndaedhelys). Coll. pl. daedhelossath. A side-form ends in -oth instead of -os. The word appears in the mutated form "ndaedelos" in LotR Appendix F, but since the second element must be delos "abhorrence" and it would surely be lenited following a vowel, this would seem to be one of the cases where Tolkien wrote d even though dh would be technically correct.

gaurhoth

werewolf

).

gond

great stone

(i ’ond, construct gon) (rock), pl. gynd (i ngynd = i ñynd), coll. pl. gonnath (Letters:410).

gwaith

host

(i ’waith) (manhood, manpower, troop of able-bodied men, regiment, people, region; wilderness), no distinct pl. form except with article (in gwaith). –

gwanod

number

(i ’wanod) (tale), pl. gwenyd (in gwenyd)

helch

bitterly cold

(lenited chelch; pl. hilch);

hoth

host

(i choth, o choth) (crowd, horde), pl. hyth (i chyth).

hoth

crowd

(i choth, o choth) (host, horde), pl. hyth (i chyth)

lae

noun. great number

lanc

sharp edge

(sudden end, brink), pl. lainc, coll. pl. langath. Note: homophones mean ”naked” and also ”neck, throat”.

loeg

pool

(no distinct pl. form: loeg is also atttested with plural meaning) (VT45:29). 4) nên (water, lake, stream, waterland), construct nen, pl. nîn.

lîn

pool

(lake), no distinct pl. form, but coll. pl. #*liniath*** (isolated from Hithliniath**, WJ:194). 3)

lîn

lake

(pool), no distinct pl. form, but coll. pl. #*liniath*** (isolated from Hithliniath**, WJ:194).

lô

shallow lake

(fenland), pl. lŷ.

nedia

number

(reckon, count) (i nedia, in nediar). Cited in archaic form ”noedia” = nödia- (LR:378 s.v. NOT).

noth

noun. number

Derivations

• √NOT “count, reckon”

nên

lake

(water, pool, stream, waterland), construct nen, pl. nîn.

ovra

abound

(i ovra, in ovrar)

ovras

crowd

(heap), pl. evrais (archaic övrais), coll. pl. ovrassath

ring

cold

(no distinct pl. form)

roval

great wing

(pinion, wing), pl. rovail (idh rovail); this is a suggested Sindarin form of ”Noldorin” *rhoval* pl. *rhovel*.

rîw

edge

(construct riw) (hem, border), no distinct pl. form except with article (idh rîw). Suggested Sindarin form of ”Noldorin” rhîf.

sirion

great river

(i** hirion, o sirion), pl. siryn (i** siryn).

sîdh

peace

(i hîdh), no distinct pl. form except with article (i sîdh) if there is any pl. form.

taur

great wood

(i daur, o thaur) (forest), pl. toer (i thoer), coll. pl. torath. Note: homophones mean ”king (of a people)” and also ”lofty, high, sublime, noble” etc.

thamas

great hall

pl. themais, coll. pl. thamassath.

tirion

great watchtower

(i** dirion, o thirion), pl. tiryn (i** thiryn).