ᴱQ. píke assari silde “blinking on bones gleaming”
The thirty third line of the Oilima Markirya poem (MC/214). The first word is the aorist form of the verb pik- “to blink” followed by an inflected form assari of as (ass-) “bone” modified by the plural form of the adjective silda “gleaming”. Gilson, Welden, and Hostetter suggested that assari might be an idiomatic use of the dative or perhaps a variant accusative (PE16/87), but I believe it might be a variant locative: the r-locative.
Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:
pík-e assa-r-i sild-e = “*blink-(aorist) bone-on-(plural) gleaming-(plural)”
Reference ✧ MC/214 ✧ “blinking on bones gleaming”
Elements
| #pik- | “to blink” | active-participle | ✧ MC/214 (píke) |
| as | “bone” | locative plural | ✧ MC/214 (assari) |
| silda | “gleaming” | plural | ✧ MC/214 (silde) |
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