Quenya 

Parmaquesta

noun. book-language

book-language

Quenya [PE 18:25 PE 18:75] Group: Mellonath Daeron. Published by

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).

Elements

WordGloss
parma“book, writing, composition, written document of some size, book, writing, composition, written document of some size; [ᴱQ.] skin, bark; parchment”
questa“speech, language”
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Qenya 

parmaqesta

proper name. Book-language

Elements

WordGloss
parma“book”
qesta“speech, language”

Variations

  • Parmaquesta ✧ PE19/029
  • parmaqesta ✧ PE22/015; PE22/061
  • parmaqestarin ✧ PE22/015; PE22/061
Qenya [PE18/025; PE19/029; PE22/015; PE22/061] Group: Eldamo. Published by