Early Quenya
man tiruva rusta kirya?
Who shall heed a broken ship?
Element in
- Eq. Oilima Markirya “The Last Ark”
Variations
- man tiruva rusta kirya ✧ MC/214
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The twenty ninth line of the Oilima Markirya poem (MC/214). The first word is man “who” followed by the future tense of the verb tiri- “to watch”, translated “heed” in the English. The object of the phrase is kirya “ship” preceded by the adjective rusta “broken”.
Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:
> man tir-uva rusta kirya = “✱who watch-(future) broken ship”