Early Quenya
ve maiwin qaine
like gulls wailing
Element in
- Eq. Oilima Markirya “The Last Ark”
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The fourth line of the Oilima Markirya poem (MC/213). The first word is the preposition ve “like” followed by the nominative plural of the noun maiwe “gull” and the plural form of the adjective qaina “wailing”.
Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:
> ve maiw-i-n qain-e = “✱like gull-(plural)-(nominative) wailing-(plural)”