ëar falastala

the sea surging

The tenth line of the Markirya poem (MC/222). The first word is ëar “sea” followed by the active-participle (“-ing”) of the verb falasta- “to surge”.

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

> ëar falasta-la = “✱sea surg-ing”

Element in

• Q. Markirya “The Last Ark”

Elements

Word	Gloss
ëar	“sea, great sea, sea, great sea, [ᴹQ.] open sea; water”
falasta-	“to foam, surge, to foam, surge, [ᴱQ.] make a sound like surf”