Eldamo : Quenya : emma

Q. emma n. “*picture” (Category: Painting, Picture)

Q. emma, n. “picture, *image” (Category: Painting, Picture): ᴺQ. !calta “picture, photography”; ᴺQ. !cemma “picture, (lit.) something seen”

A word appearing in notes from 1967 as an element in indemma “mind-picture” and quantemma “facsimile, a complete detailed visual reproduction (by any means) of a visible thing” (PE17/174, 179), probably meaning “picture, *image” (the latter gloss suggested by Tamas Ferencz). It was based on the root √EM “depict, portray”.

Reference ✧ PE17/179 ✧ “*picture”

Element In

ᴺQ. !airemma “icon, (lit.) holy image”
ᴺQ. !amboremma “bust, (lit.) breast-picture”
ᴺQ. !cantemma “shaped image, sculpture”
ᴺQ. !emmata- “to draw/create (a picture); to photograph”
ᴺQ. !emnotosta “framerate, FPS (frames per second)”
ᴺQ. !epemma “example”
ᴺQ. !hlónemma “phoneme”
ᴺQ. !levemma “movie, motion picture”
ᴺQ. !menemma “movie, motion picture”
ᴺQ. !noremma “map”
ᴺQ. !tecemma “drawn image, drawing, painting”
Q. indemma “mind-picture (of apparition in dream)” ✧ PE17/179 (indemmar)
Q. quantemma “facsimile, *(lit.) full-picture” ✧ PE17/179

Cognates

ᴺS. !em “picture, image”

Derivations

< √EM¹ “depict, portray” ✧ PE17/179

Phonetic Developments

√EM > emma

[emma]

✧ PE17/179