Early Quenya
ala hui oilimaite
*before the last night
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Word Gloss ala “beyond, after; before” hui “dark, murk, fog; night, evening” oilimaite “final, ultimate, last” Variations
- ala {fuin >>} hui oilimaite ✧ PE16/077
- ala {fui >>} hui oilimaite ✧ PE16/077; PE16/077
ala hui oilimaite
*before the last night
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ala hui oilimaite
*before the last night
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The repeated thirteenth, fourteenth and sixteenth phrases (lines 24, 25 and 27) of the intermediate version of the Oilima Markirya poem (PE16/77). The first word is ala “before” followed by hui “night” and oilimaite “last”. This phrase corresponds to phrase in the English translations of the poem LA2a-LA2b (PE16/68-9): “before the last night”.
Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:
> ala hui oilimaite = “✱before night last”
Conceptual Development: The second word “night” was first written fuin (line 24) or fui (lines 25 and 27).