Early Quenya
rána
noun. Moon
rána númetar
the moon went down in the West
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The fourteenth phrase of the first version of the Oilima Markirya poem (MC/221). Its first word is Rána “moon” followed by the present 3rd-singular masculine form of númeta- “to go down”.
Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:
> rána númeta-r = “✱moon goes-down-he”
Conceptual Development: This phrase appeared in the fourth draft of this poem, with Tolkien considering the forms númetorana >> númetáro for the verb before settling on númetar (OM1d: PE16/62). The phrase remained the same thereafter.