Early Quenya
súru laustanéro
the winds rushed
Element in
Variations
- Súru laustanéro ✧ MC/220
- suuru laustaneero ✧ PE16/072
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The ninth phrase of the first version of the Oilima Markirya poem (MC/220). The first word is súru “wind” followed by the past 3rd-singular feminine form of lausta- “to roar”, so that a better translation might be “the wind was roaring” (PE16/62).
Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:
> súru lausta-né-ro = “✱wind roar-(past)-she”
Conceptual Development: The second and third drafts of the poem used the similar phrase surussin lurdon lausto (OM1b-c: PE16/57, 60). The phrase súru laustanéro appeared in the fourth draft of the poem (OM1d: PE16/62) and remained the same thereafter.