ëar amortala

the seas heaving

The twenty-sixth line of the Markirya poem (MC/222). The first word is ëar “sea” followed by the active-participle (“-ing”) of the verb amorta- “to heave”.

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

> ëar amorta-la = “✱sea heav-ing”

Element in

• Q. Markirya “The Last Ark”

Elements

Word	Gloss
ëar	“sea, great sea, sea, great sea, [ᴹQ.] open sea; water”
amorta-	“to heave”