Early Quenya
wente
noun. brook, small river
Changes
- wente → vente ✧ GL/46
Cognates
- G. gwent “brook, small river” ✧ GL/46
Derivations
- ᴱ√GWETE “*wind, turn, bend” ✧ GL/46
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√gwed² > wente [gʷentē] > [gʷente] > [wente] ✧ GL/46 Variations
- vente ✧ GL/46
A noun given the cognate of G. gwent “brook, small river” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s as a derivative of the root ᴱ√gu̯et (GL/46). Tolkien seems to have revised the primitive form to u̯et and the Qenya form to vente.