Early Quenya
ringa
adjective. cold, damp, chilly
níve qímari ringa ambar
the pale phantoms in her cold bosom
hesin
noun. winter
yan
conjunction. when
yelin
noun. winter
yelwa
adjective. cold
There are more words but they are from Tolkien's earlier conceptional periods. Tolkien likely changed these words as he evolved the aesthetics and completeness of the languages. You may even find languages that Tolkien later rejected. Do not mix words from different time periods unless you are familiar with the phonetic developments.
ringa
adjective. cold, damp, chilly
níve qímari ringa ambar
the pale phantoms in her cold bosom
hesin
noun. winter
yan
conjunction. when
yelin
noun. winter
yelwa
adjective. cold
Below: Tolkien's Late Period (1950–1973). These are from Tolkien's late conceptual period — his most settled forms of the languages. Prefer these over the earlier ones above when composing new text.
The third line of the Oilima Markirya poem (MC/213). The first word is plural of the adjective níva “pale” modifying the plural of the noun qímar “phantom”. This is followed by the adjective ringa “cold” modifying the noun ambar “bosom”. It seems that the words “her” and “in” do not appear in the Quenya phrase, although Gilson, Welden, and Hostetter suggested ambar might be an idiomatic dative form of a variant noun amba “bosom” (PE16/82, notes on line #3).
Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:
> nív-e qímar-i ringa ambar = “✱pale-(plural) phantom-(plural) cold bosom”