Quenya 

venë

small boat, vessel, dish

venë noun "small boat, vessel, dish" (LT1:254)

venë

noun. dish, [eating] vessel, small boat

I Vene Kemen

I Vene Kemen

Christopher Tolkien has suggested that I Vene Kemen is a Qenya name perhaps meaning "The Shape of the Earth" or "The Vessel of the Earth". The element vene is likely related to the root VENE "shape, cut out, scoop" and its derivative venë ("small boat, vessel, dish"). For the element kemen, the Qenya Lexicon contains the words kemi ("earth, soil") and kemen ("soil"), derived from the root KEME.

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Early Quenya

vene

noun. small boat, vessel, dish

A noun appearing as ᴱQ. vene in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, initially glossed “small boat” and then with the glosses “vessel, dish” added, listed under the early root ᴱ√VENE {“small boat” >>} “shape, cut out, scoop” (QL/100-101).

Neo-Quenya: I would retain ᴺQ. venë for purposes of Neo-Quenya with the more limited meaning “[eating] vessel, dish”. I would reconceive of it as a derivative of the 1930s root ᴹ√BEN “corner, angle”.

Early Quenya [LT1A/Glorvent; QL/100] Group: Eldamo. Published by

i vene kemen

proper name. *Shape of the Earth, Vessel of the Earth

Name of a very early map showing the lands of Middle-earth as parts of a ship, translated by Christopher Tolkien as “Shape of the Earth” or “Vessel of the Earth” (LT1/84-5), a combination of i “the”, vene “vessel” and kemen “Earth”.

Early Quenya [LT1/085; LT1A/Glorvent] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Primitive Elvish

vene

root. shape, cut out, scoop

Early Primitive Elvish [LT1A/Glorvent; QL/100; QL/101] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Gnomish

bent

noun. small boat

A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s given as benc or bent “small boat” (GL/22), clearly related to ᴱQ. vene “small boat” from the contemporaneous Qenya Lexicon under the early root ᴱ√VENE as suggested by Christopher Tolkien (LT1A/Glorvent).

Gnomish [GL/22; LT1A/Glorvent] Group: Eldamo. Published by

benc

noun. small boat