axor ilcalannar

on bones gleaming

The thirty-sixth line of the Markirya poem (MC/222). The first word is the plural of axo “bone” followed by the active-participle form of the verb ilca- “gleam” with the allative plural suffix -nnar (“on[to]”), which modifies the entire phrase, as suggested by Helge Fauskanger (AL/Markirya).

Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:

> axo-r ilca-la-nna-r = “✱bone-(plural) gleam-ing-on-(plural)”

Element in

• Q. Markirya “The Last Ark”

Variations

• axor ilkalannar ✧ MC/222

ilca-

gleam (white)

ilca- ("k") vb. "gleam (white)", participle ilcala with pl. allative ending ilcalannar in Markirya (axor ilcalannar "on bones gleaming")