Early Quenya
silda-ránar
in the moon gleaming
Element in
- Eq. Oilima Markirya “The Last Ark”
silda
adjective. gleaming
Derivations
- ᴱ√SILI “*gleam”
Element in
- Eq. píke assari silde “blinking on bones gleaming” ✧ MC/214
- Eq. silda-ránar “in the moon gleaming” ✧ MC/213
- Eq. súlimarya sildai, hiswa timpe “*slender columns of pearl, a dim rain” ✧ VT40/08
The sixteenth line of the Oilima Markirya poem (MC/213). The first word is the adjective silda “gleaming” followed by an inflected form ránar of Rána “Moon”. Gilson, Welden, and Hostetter suggest it might be an idiomatic use of the dative (PE16/85), but I think it might be a variant form of the locative: the r-locative.
Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:
> silda-rána-r = “✱gleaming-moon-in”