parma noun "book", also name of tengwa #2 (PAR, Appendix E). In early "Qenya", the gloss was "skin, bark, parchment, book, writings" (LT2:346); Tolkien later revisited the idea that parma basically is a noun "peel" and refers to bark or skin (as primitive writing materials, PE17:86): "peel, applied to bark or skin, hence "book", bark (literally skinning, peeling off), parchment, book; a book (or written document of some size")" (PE17:123). In the meantimeTolkien had associated the word with a root PAR meaning "compose, put together" (LR:380); the word loiparë "mistake in writing" (q.v.) may also suggest that the root PAR at one point was to mean "write", so that a parma was a "written thing". Instrumental form parmanen "with a book" or "by means of a book" (PE17:91, 180), parmastanna "on your book" (with the endings -sta dual "your", -nna allative) (VT49:47), parmahentië noun "book reading" (PE17:77). Other compounds: parmalambë noun "book-language" = Q[u]enya (PAR), #parma-resta noun "book-fair", attested with the endings -lya "thy" and the allative ending -nna (parma-restalyanna *"upon your book-fair") (VT49:38, 39). Parma as the name of the tengwa letter for P occurs compunded in parmatéma noun "p-series", labials, the second column of the Tengwar system (Appendix E).
Quenya
parma
noun. book
parma
book
parmaitë
masculine name. *Book Handy
parmaquesta
proper name. Book-language
A term for the older form of Quenya spoken in the centuries before the exile of the Noldor, preserved mainly in writing (PE18/75, PE19/68). This name is a compound parma “book” and questa “speech”. This stage of the language is also known as “Classical Quenya” (see the Plotz Letter, VT6/14).
Conceptual Development: In The Etymologies and the Lhammas from the 1930s, this term was given as ᴹQ. Parmalambe “Book-tongue” (Ety/PAR, LR/172). In contemporaneous linguistic documents from the 1930s, the term appeared as Parmaqestarin (PE22/15, 61) or ᴹQ. Parmaqesta (PE18/25; PE19/29; PE22/61). The latter term reappeared in linguistic documents from the 1950s (PE18/75, PE19/68).
Parmaquesta
noun. book-language
book-language
parma
noun. book, writing, composition, written document of some size, book, writing, composition, written document of some size; [ᴱQ.] skin, bark; parchment
parma-resta
noun. *book-fair
parma mittarion
*book of enterings
panna
noun. arrangement, grouping; *plan, course; book
parmacas (parmacaps-)
qE6t#aD8 noun. book case, bookcase
henta-
to eye, to examine (with the eyes), scan; to read (silently)
henta- vb. "to eye, to examine (with the eyes), scan; to read (silently)" (for "read aloud", et-henta is used). Forms cited: Aorist henta, present continuative hentëa, "aorist past" hentanë, perfect ehentanië. Gerund #hentië "reading", isolated from parmahentië "book reading" (PE17:77, 156).
parmacas
noun. bookcase
palusta
noun. shelf, bookshelf
A neologism coined by Orondil on the Vinyë Lambengolmor Discord Server (VLDS) in 2021-07-11, an elaboration of [ᴱQ.] palo (palu-) “plane (surface)”.
helma
skin, fell
helma noun "skin, fell" (SKEL), changed by Tolkien from halma (VT46:14)
book, writing, composition