Quenya
ve loicolícuma
a corpse-candle
Element in
- Q. Markirya “The Last Ark”
Elements
Word Gloss ve “as, like, similar, after the manner [of], as, like, similar, after the manner [of]; [ᴹQ.] with” loicolícuma “corpse-candle” Variations
- ve loikolíkuma ✧ MC/222
The twentieth line of the Markirya poem (MC/222). The first word is ve “like” (not reflected in the English translation of the poem) followed by loicolícuma “corpse-candle”, a compound of loico “corpse” and lícuma “candle”.
Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:
> ve loico-lícuma = “✱like corpse-candle”