ᴱQ. tollalinta ruste “upon crumbling hills”
The twenty fourth line of the Oilima Markirya poem (MC/214). The first word is the allative plural form of the noun tolla “hill” followed by the plural form of the adjective rusta “crumbling”.
Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:
tolla-li-nta rust-e = “*hill-(plural)-upon crumbling-(plural)”
Reference ✧ MC/214 ✧ “upon crumbling hills”
Elements
| tolda | “hill (with a flat top), hill top; town on a hill” | allative plural | ✧ MC/214 (tollalinta) |
| rusta | “broken” | plural | ✧ MC/214 (ruste) |
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