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The ninth phrase of the first version of the Oilima Markirya poem (MC/220). The first word is súru “wind” followed by the past 3rd-singular feminine form of lausta-² “to roar”, so that a better translation might be “the wind was roaring” (PE16/62).

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

súru lausta-né-ro = “*wind roar-(past)-she”

Conceptual Development: The second and third drafts of the poem used the similar phrase surussin lurdon lausto (OM1b-c: PE16/57, 60). The phrase súru laustanéro appeared in the fourth draft of the poem (OM1d: PE16/62) and remained the same thereafter.