Select Elvish Words 9.87: Painting, Picture

9.87 Painting, Picture

Q. emma n. “picture, *image”

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”.

Q. quantemma n. “facsimile, *(lit.) full-picture”

A word for a “facsimile”, more accurately “a complete detailed visual reproduction (by any means) of a visible thing”, a reduction of the phrase quanta emma “*full picture” (PE17/179).