Q. i falmalinnar imbë met “on the foaming waves between us”
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References ✧ LotR/377; PE17/127; RGEO/58
Glosses
Variations
Elements
| i¹ | “the” | ✧ LotR/377; PE17/127; RGEO/58 | |
| falma | “(crested or foaming) wave, breaker” | allative partitive-plural | ✧ LotR/377 (falmalinnar); PE17/127; RGEO/58 (fálmalínnar) |
| imbë¹ | “between, among” | ✧ LotR/377; RGEO/58 (ímbe) | |
| me | “us (exclusive)” | dual | ✧ LotR/377 (met); RGEO/58 (mèt) |
| -li | “partitive plural (suffix); many, some, a lot of” | ✧ PE17/127 | |
| -nna | “(movement) to, towards, onto, at (arriving at a point); allative suffix” | ✧ PE17/127 | |
| -r¹ | “plural suffix” | ✧ PE17/127 | |
Element In
Q. †an i falmalī “*on the foaming waves”
Reference ✧ PE17/127
Elements
| an(a) | “to, towards, to a point near, alongside” | ✧ PE17/127 (an) | |
| i¹ | “the” | ✧ PE17/127 | |
| falma | “(crested or foaming) wave, breaker” | partitive-plural | ✧ PE17/127 (falmalī) |
Q. i falmalinnar imbë met² “upon the (many) foaming waves between us (two)”
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The 13th phrase in the prose Namárië, which is essentially the same as its poetic version, differing only in its more literal translation. As a collection of modifying elements following a verb, there is nothing particularly notable about its word order.
Reference ✧ RGEO/59 ✧ i falma-li-nnar imbe met “the foaming waves-many-upon (pl.) between us-two”
Elements
| i¹ | “the” | ✧ RGEO/59 | |
| falma | “(crested or foaming) wave, breaker” | allative partitive-plural | ✧ RGEO/59 (falma-li-nnar) |
| imbë¹ | “between, among” | ✧ RGEO/59 | |
| me | “us (exclusive)” | dual | ✧ RGEO/59 (met) |
Element In