√KWA “complete, full, whole, all, every; [ᴹ√] something”

As it's the 200th anniversary of the death of the romantic poet John Keats, here's the Quenya translation of one of his poems that he wrote on the death of a favourite bird he'd been keeping.

I took some licence by assuming a shortening of manan to ma'n in fast speech and in poetry, but the lines would've been overlong otherwise.

Sámen kukúa ar i lisse firne;

Ar náven firnes nyérenen:

√KOM “gather, collect”

√KIL “choose, select; [ᴹ√] divide; [ᴱ√] edge”

√KHOL “crow, cry aloud”

√KHEL “ice, [ᴹ√] freeze”

√KHAB “heap up, pile up”

√KE/EKE “may (be); have chance, opportunity or permission; it is open”

ᴱ√KAŊA “weave, twine”

Illi melir nandar – patare nandasse tuiles hya laires mine i ammélime felmion ná. Mal nandar yú valdie nar, yorila laimaron *raition úme i antar már píron ar *hlikkoron úven, ta yú antar mat nierin. Ente saminte enta *ompasse:i tumne nandar polir sirion luime epetai varya atanion mári. Taite nanda late ara i osto yasse harinye, ar erehtánies me rimbe lussen.