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. !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