Eldamo : Quenya : úmë

Q. úmë n. “great collection or crowd of things of the same sort, throng” (Category: Other Collective Words)

Q. úmë, n. “great collection or crowd of things of the same sort; [ᴹQ.] abundance, ⚠️great quantity; [Q.] throng” (Category: Other Collective Words)

A word for a “great collection or crowd of things of the same sort” from around 1968 based on the root √UM “abound” (VT48/32). Another note from the late 1960s has úme “throng” based on √UM “teem, throng”, but this note was marked through (PE17/115).

Conceptual Development: The Etymologies of the 1930s had ᴹQ. úve “abundance, great quantity” under the root ᴹ√UB “abound” (Ety/UB).

References ✧ PE17/115; VT48/32

Glosses

“great collection or crowd of things of the same sort” ✧ VT48/32
“largeness” ✧ VT48/32 (úme)
“throng” ✧ PE17/115 (úme)

Element In

Q. -úmë “large (of quantity)” ✧ VT48/32

Derivations

< √UM “abound; teem, throng; large” ✧ PE17/115 (UM); VT48/32 (um); VT48/32

Phonetic Developments

√UM > úme	[ūme]	✧ PE17/115
√um > úme	[ūme]	✧ VT48/32
√um > úme	[ūme]	✧ VT48/32

ᴹQ. úve n. “abundance, great quantity” (Category: Sufficiency)

See Q. úmë for discussion.

Reference ✧ Ety/UB ✧ “abundance, great quantity”

Element In

ᴹQ. úvea “abundant, in very great number, very large” ✧ Ety/UB

Cognates

N. ovras “crowd, heap” ✧ Ety/UB

Derivations

< ᴹ√UB¹ “abound” ✧ Ety/UB

Phonetic Developments

ᴹ√UB > úve

[ūbe] > [ūβe] > [ūve]

✧ Ety/UB