Tolkien imagined a complex set of names for each letter or Tengwa: alphabetic names, different in each languages and modes, and a 'full name' a Quenya word used in every languages as a loanword to designate the letter.
The full name of hwá was hwesta "breeze" in Quenya.
The letter called hwá in Quenya was named chwae in Sindarin (Noldorin), and in real Common Speech it was akha, later aha (as in Rohan).
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My new Elvish question marks.
Up to last year we only had 1 example of such a mark in 1 text/calligraphy by Tolkien, published in "The Road Goes Ever On".
Last year (at last) a text by Tolkien provided the definitive explanation of its origin showing that my hypothesis was the right one. It is a reshaped/reduced Tengwa M.
Note: Parmaquesta is a normalized written form of Quenya, using a standardized spelling.
I was thinking in changing the .notdef logo in the same Font to "No Tengwa"
Who knows the name of the Font?
Thanks! 😎 👍
e_kloczko