Early Quenya
oilima ailinello lúte
leave the last shore
Element in
- Eq. Oilima Markirya “The Last Ark”
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The second line of the Oilima Markirya poem (MC/213). The first word is oilima “last” followed by the ablative form of the noun ailin “shore”, a modifying-phrase of the verb lutu- “to sail” in the aorist tense, loosely translated “leave” in the poem.
Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:
> oilima ailin-ello lúte = “✱last shore-from sail [leave]”