S. rim n. “host, great number, people (of one kind or origin)” (Category: Crowd, Multitude)
A word for a “great number” (PE17/50), a “people (of one kind or origin)” (PE17/190), or a “host” (Let/382). It was frequently used as a class plural suffix -rim.
Conceptual Development: The Etymologies of the 1930s has N. rhim “crowd, host” derived from ᴹ✶rimbē under the root ᴹ√RIM, reflecting the 1930s sound change whereby initial r unvoiced to rh (Ety/RIM). In Early Noldorin word-lists of the 1920s it was ᴱN. drim “a host, countless number” (PE13/142), while in the Gnomish Lexicon (GL) of the 1910s it was G. grim “host” (GL/54). In GL, there was also an adjective G. lim¹ “many” often used as a plural suffix -lim or -rim, the latter by dissimilation after l and by confusion with grim (GL/54).
References ✧ Let/382; PE17/50, 190; SA/rim; UT/318
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N. rhim¹ n. “crowd, host” (Category: Crowd, Multitude)
References ✧ Ety/LI, RIM
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| ON. rimbe > rhimb > rhim | [rimbe] > [rimb] > [r̥imb] > [r̥imb] > [r̥imm] > [r̥im] | ✧ Ety/RIM |
ᴱN. drim n. “host, countless number” (Category: Crowd, Multitude)
Reference ✧ PE13/142 ✧ “a host, countless number”
G. grim n. “host, folk” (Category: Crowd, Multitude)
References ✧ GL/54; LT2A/Gondothlim; QL/32
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| ᴱ√‘ṚMṚ > grim | [ɣṛm] > [gṛm] > [grim] | ✧ QL/32 |
G. lim¹ adj. “many” (Category: Much, Many)
References ✧ GG/15; GL/17, 54
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