ᴱQ. man kiluva kirya ninqe? “Who shall see a white ship?”
The first and fifth lines of the Oilima Markirya poem (MC/213). The first word is man “who” followed by the future tense of the verb kili- “to see”, translated “heed” in the fifth line. The object of the phrase is the noun kirya “ship”, followed by the adjective ninqe “white”.
Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:
man kil-uva kirya ninqe = “*who see-(future) ship white”
References ✧ MC/213
Glosses
Elements
| man | “who” | ✧ MC/213; MC/213 | |
| kili- | “to see, heed” | future | ✧ MC/213 (kiluva); MC/213 (kiluva) |
| kirya | “ship, boat” | ✧ MC/213; MC/213 | |
| ninqe | “white” | ✧ MC/213; MC/213 |
Element In
ᴱQ. man kiluva kirya ninqe²? “Who shall heed a white ship?”
Element In