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The twenty ninth line of the Oilima Markirya poem (MC/214). The first word is man “who” followed by the future tense of the verb tiri- “to watch”, translated “heed” in the English. The object of the phrase is kirya “ship” preceded by the adjective rusta “broken”.

Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:

man tir-uva rusta kirya = “*who watch-(future) broken ship”