loicolícuma
corpse-candle
loicolícuma
noun. corpse-candle
A word for “a corpse-candle” in the Markirya poem from the 1960s, a combination of loico “corpse” and lícuma “candle” (MC/222-223).
Conceptual Development: In the version of the poem from around 1930, this was ᴱQ. kaivo-kalma “corpse-candle” (MC/214)
ve loicolícuma
a corpse-candle
The twentieth line of the Markirya poem (MC/222). The first word is ve “like” (not reflected in the English translation of the poem) followed by loicolícuma “corpse-candle”, a compound of loico “corpse” and lícuma “candle”.
Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:
> ve loico-lícuma = “✱like corpse-candle”
caivo-calma
corpse-light
caivo-calma _("k")_noun "corpse-light" = corpsecandle (MC:214; this is "Qenya": Tolkien's later Quenya has loicolícuma)
loicolícuma noun "corpse-candle" (Markirya)