Early Quenya
man kiluva kirya ninqe?
Who shall see a white ship?
Element in
- Eq. Oilima Markirya “The Last Ark”
man kiluva kirya ninqe?
Who shall heed a white ship?
Element in
- Eq. Oilima Markirya “The Last Ark”
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The first and fifth lines of the Oilima Markirya poem (MC/213). The first word is man “who” followed by the future tense of the verb kili- “to see”, translated “heed” in the fifth line. The object of the phrase is the noun kirya “ship”, followed by the adjective ninqe “white”.
Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:
> man kil-uva kirya ninqe = “✱who see-(future) ship white”