ᴱQ. aire móre ala tinwi “the old darkness beyond the stars”
The twenty seventh line of the Oilima Markirya poem (MC/214). The first word is the adjective aire² “old” modifying the noun móre “darkness”. This is followed by the preposition ala³ “beyond” with the plural of tinwe “star”.
Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:
aire móre ala tinw-i = “*old darkness beyond star-(plural)”
Reference ✧ MC/214 ✧ “the old darkness beyond the stars”
Elements
| aire² | “old” | ✧ MC/214 | |
| móre | “night, darkness; black, dark” | ✧ MC/214 | |
| ala³ | “beyond, after; before” | ✧ MC/214 | |
| tinwe | “star” | plural | ✧ MC/214 (tinwi) |
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