ᴱQ. 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)”
Reference ✧ MC/213 ✧ “like gulls wailing”
Elements
| ve | “as, like” | ✧ MC/213 | |
| máwe | “gull, seamew” | nominative plural | ✧ MC/213 (maiwin) |
| #qaina | “wailing” | plural | ✧ MC/213 (qaine) |
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