Quenya
isilmë ilcalassë
in the moon gleaming
Element in
- Q. Markirya “The Last Ark”
Elements
Word Gloss isilmë “moonlight” ilca- “to gleam (white)” Variations
- isilme ilkalasse ✧ MC/222
isilmë ilcalassë
in the moon gleaming
Element in
- Q. Markirya “The Last Ark”
Elements
Word Gloss isilmë “moonlight” ilca- “to gleam (white)” Variations
- isilme ilkalasse ✧ MC/222
The seventeenth line of the Markirya poem (MC/222). The first word is isilmë “moonlight” followed by the active-participle (“-ing”) of the verb ilca- “to gleam” with the locative suffix -ssë (“in”), which modifies the entire phrase, as suggested by Helge Fauskanger (AL/Markirya).
Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:
> isilmë ilca-la-ssë = “✱moonlight gleam-ing-in”