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)

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".)