rimbë

noun. host, great number, host, great number, [ᴹQ.] crowd

A word for a “great number” (PE17/50), “host” (Let/382), or “crowd” (Ety/RIM). In The Etymologies of the 1930s it was derived from ᴹ✶rimbē based on the root ᴹ√RIM (Ety/RIM).

Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had ᴱQ. limbe “a number” under the early root ᴱ√LĪ (QL/53). In the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon the word limbe was given as a cognate to G. lim “many” (GL/54).

rimbë

crowd, host, great number

rimbë noun "crowd, host, great number" (RIM, SA:rim, Letters:282)

cimba

noun. edge, brink

liyúmë

host

liyúmë noun "host" (VT48:32)

liyúmë

noun. host

A word for “host” appearing in notes from the late 1960s, a combination of li(n)- “many” and -úmë “large (of quanity)” (VT48/32).

réna

edge, border, margin

réna noun "edge, border, margin" (REG)

ríma

edge, hem, border

ríma noun "edge, hem, border" (RĪ)

sanga

crowd, press, throng

sanga (þ) noun "crowd, press, throng" (STAG, SA:thang, LT2:342; pl. sangar (?) twice in Narqelion). In Sangahyando (þ) masc. name "Throng-cleaver", name of a man in Gondor _(SA:thang; a footnote in Letters:425 explains that "throng" here means a closely formed body of enemy soldiers. In the Etymologies, stems STAG, SYAD, _sangahyando is said to be a swordname, and LT2:342 likewise defines the word as a name of Turambar's sword: "cleaver of throngs, Throng-cleaver".)