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Early Quenya

ailissen oilimaisen

upon the last beaches

The nineteenth phrase (line 23) of the first version of the Oilima Markirya poem (MC/221). The first word is the locative plural of the noun aile “beach” and followed by the adjective oilima, also in locative plural form to agree with its noun.

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

> ailissen oilimaisen = “✱beach-(plural)-upon last-(plural)-upon”

Conceptual Development: This phrase also appeared in the fourth, fifth and sixth drafts, though the number of times it appeared varied, as did the exact form of the locative plurals (OM1d-f: PE16/62, 72, 74).

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Variations

  • {ailim’ >>} ailinisse {te} oilimasse ✧ PE16/062
  • ailisse oilimasse ✧ PE16/062
  • ailinisse oilimasse ✧ PE16/062
  • äilisse oilimasse ✧ PE16/072
  • äilinisse oilimasse ✧ PE16/072
  • ailissen {oilimasse >>} oilimaisen ✧ PE16/074
Early Quenya [MC/221; PE16/062; PE16/072; PE16/074] Group: Eldamo. Published by