Quenya 

emma

picture

emma noun *"picture" (compounded in indemmar "mind-pictures") (PE17:179)

emma

noun. *picture, *picture, image

@@@ gloss “image” suggested by Tamas Ferencz

Cognates

  • ᴺS. em “picture, image”

Derivations

  • √EM “depict, portray” ✧ PE17/179

Element in

  • ᴺQ. airemma “icon, (lit.) holy image”
  • ᴺQ. amboremma “bust, (lit.) breast-picture”
  • ᴺQ. cantemma “shaped image, sculpture”
  • ᴺQ. emmata- “to photograph”
  • ᴺQ. epemma “example”
  • Q. indemma “mind-picture (of apparition in dream)” ✧ PE17/179
  • ᴺQ. levemma “movie, motion picture”
  • ᴺQ. menemma “movie, motion picture”
  • ᴺQ. noremma “map”
  • Q. quantemma “facsimile, *(lit.) full-picture” ✧ PE17/179
  • ᴺQ. tecemma “drawn image, drawing, painting”

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
√EM > emma[emma]✧ PE17/179

indemma

mind-picture

indemma noun "mind-picture", i.e. a vision transferred from one mind to another and perceived as visual (and aural) images, usually produced by Elves, though Men were capable of receiving them (especially during sleep) (PE17:174, 179). Compound of indo (#1) + emma. Ephemerally Tolkien may have considered the word fanwos (q.v.) for the same phenomenon.

quanta emma

facsimile

quanta emma, quantemma noun "facsimile", a complete detailed visual reproduction (by any means) of a visible thing" (PE17:179), literally *"full picture", cf. emma, q.v.