ceven

/'ke.ven/ ez4z@
noun
earth, element, dirt, soil; Earth, the world
plural cevin
Attested in writing
noun nature Swadesh 100 Swadesh 207

Etymology

Root: √KEM "soil, earth"
Primitive Eldarin: ✶kemen
kemen keven View phonetic development in Quettamorphosis

Cognates

quenya cemen

References

View on Eldamo

Sources: VT44/27

Notes

In this word, the rule that removes the final "-n" from words did not seem to apply, suggesting that either this word has a different origin like "kemenē" or it's a back-formation from some inflected form. Prefer to use "amar" to refer to the whole world.