rámar sisílala

the wings shining

The twelfth line of the Markirya poem (MC/222). The first word is the plural of ráma “wing” followed by the active-participle (“-ing”) of the verb sisíla- “to shine”.

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

> ráma-r sisíla-la = “✱wing-(plural) shin-ing”

Element in

• Q. Markirya “The Last Ark”

Elements

Word	Gloss
ráma	“wing, wing; [ᴱQ.] arm”
sisíla-	“to shine (frequentative)”