N. ovor adj. “abundant” (Category: Much, Many)
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).
Reference ✧ Ety/UB ✧ “abundant”
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| ᴹ✶ubrā > ofr (ovr) > ovor | [ubrā] > [ubra] > [uvra] > [ovra] > [ovr] > [ovor] | ✧ Ety/UB |
ᴱN. odog adj. “much, abundant; large in quantity” (Category: Much, Many)
References ✧ PE13/125, 128, 151, 160
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| diad | augmentative | ✧ PE13/125 |
| lai(a)d | augmentative | ✧ PE13/125 |
| edyg | plural | ✧ PE13/151 |
| ydig | plural | ✧ PE13/151 |
| diant | superlative | ✧ PE13/125 |
| lai(a)nt | superlative | ✧ PE13/125 |
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G. odog adj. “mighty, great; violent, excessive, exceeding, very” (Category: Much, Many)
References ✧ GL/51, 62
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