Quenya
isilmë pícalassë
in the moon waning
Element in
- Q. Markirya “The Last Ark”
Elements
Word Gloss isilmë “moonlight” pic- “to lessen, dwindle, wane” Variations
- isilme píkalasse ✧ MC/222
isilmë pícalassë
in the moon waning
Element in
- Q. Markirya “The Last Ark”
Elements
Word Gloss isilmë “moonlight” pic- “to lessen, dwindle, wane” Variations
- isilme píkalasse ✧ MC/222
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”