Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
hui
noun. dark, murk, fog; night, evening
hui oilima
[the last evening]
hui oilima man kiluva
Who shall see the last evening?
The thirty fifth line of the Oilima Markirya poem (MC/214). The first word is the noun hui “evening” followed by the adjective oilima “last”. This serves as the object for the second half of the phrase, with the subject man “who” and the future tense of the verb kili- “to see”.
Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:
> hui oilima man kil-uva = “✱evening last who see-(future)”
ala hui oilimaite
*before the last night
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).
ala hui oilimaite
*before the last night
ala hui oilimaite
*before the last night
fan
noun. dog
fui
noun. night
huan
noun. dog
@@@ reflects older sw- > hu-
kay-
verb. to lie
kaya-
verb. to lie
móri
noun. night
The thirty sixth and final line of the Oilima Markirya poem (MC/214). The first word is the noun hui “evening” followed by the adjective oilima “last”. The phrase does not appear in the English translation.
Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:
> hui oilima = “✱evening last”