ve

preposition. as, like

ve sangar voro úmeai

*like throngs ever large

ve kaivo-kalma

a corpse-candle

The nineteenth line of the Oilima Markirya poem (MC/214). The first word is the preposition ve “like”, not reflected in the English translation. It is followed a compound of kaivo “corpse” and kalma “candle”, perhaps more literally “light”.

Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:

> ve kaivo-kalma = “✱like corpse-candle”

ve maiwin qaine

like gulls wailing

The fourth line of the Oilima Markirya poem (MC/213). The first word is the preposition ve “like” followed by the nominative plural of the noun maiwe “gull” and the plural form of the adjective qaina “wailing”.

Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:

> ve maiw-i-n qain-e = “✱like gull-(plural)-(nominative) wailing-(plural)”

taurelasselindon

like leaves of forests

The fourteenth phrase of the Oilima Markirya poem (second version) (MC/213), and the tenth phrase of the first version of the Oilima Markirya poem (MC/220). It is a compound word, a combination of taure “forest” and the adverbial plural form of lasse “leaf”.

Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:

> taure-lasse-li-ndon = “✱forest-leaf-(plural)-like”

Conceptual Development: This phrase first appeared in the fourth draft of the first version of this poem (OM1d: PE16/62) and remained the same thereafter.

vê

masculine name. Vê

-ie

suffix. abstract noun

-le

suffix. abstract noun

-léni

suffix. long

A suffix for “long” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with variants lēni or lēnu, both base on the early root ᴱ√LENE “long” (QL/53). These Qenya suffixes were also mentioned in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon (GL/39).

-sse

suffix. abstract noun

-lénu

suffix. long

-me

suffix. abstract noun

-víke

suffix. as

anda

adjective. long

andra

adjective. long

ô

preposition. from