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isilmë pícalassë

in the moon waning

The eighteenth line of the Markirya poem (MC/222). The first word is isilmë “moonlight” followed by the active-participle (“-ing”) of the verb pic- or píca- “to wane” 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 píca-la-ssë = “✱moonlight wan-ing-in”

Element in

Elements

WordGloss
isilmë“moonlight”
pic-“to lessen, dwindle, wane”

Variations

  • isilme píkalasse ✧ MC/222