Early Quenya
ve kaivo-kalma
a corpse-candle
Element in
- Eq. Oilima Markirya “The Last Ark”
Variations
- ve kaivo kalma ✧ MC/214
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The nineteenth line of the Oilima Markirya poem (MC/214). The first word is the preposition ve “like”, not reflected in the English translation. It is followed a compound of kaivo “corpse” and kalma “candle”, perhaps more literally “light”.
Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:
> ve kaivo-kalma = “✱like corpse-candle”