Early Quenya
ailinissen oilimaisen
*on the last shores
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The twelfth phrase (line 23) of the intermediate version of the Oilima Markirya poem (PE16/77). It is the locative plural of the noun ailin “shore” and the adjective oilima “last”. This phrase corresponds to the lines of the English translations of the poem LA2a-LA2b (PE16/68-9): “on the final/ultimate shore”.
Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:
> ailinissen oilimaisen = “✱shore-(plural)-on last-(plural)-on”