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curá (noun): nearby, present, close; here, located nearby. niyír curá tambám mál tinárándurvem superbly near hear.PERF.TRANS it.ACC words.king.GEN.DEF “[those] near [to him will] hear the king’s words the best” curá behaves technically as a noun, and is not usually used … Continue reading →

luhú- (intransitive verb), imperfective luhúr: to scream, shout. yat manúcá luhú-s sarengur certangang then prisoner.PL scream-IMPERF.NON1 pain.GEN night.EL “the prisoners were screaming from pain in the night”

sacarna (adverb): soon, after(wards), in the near future. sacarna már evá mbet rassá tenámbes soon it cover.PERF and become.POT rain.ESS “it [will] become cloudy soon, and [maybe] it will rain” sacarna is used to situate events at some largely indeterminate … Continue reading →

sircalá- (intransitive verb), imperfective sircaláv: to descend, go down. len sircalá carandettárut súrtec we descend.PERF lake.ILL.DEF water.BEN “we came down to [the shores of] the lake to [get] water”

surtac (noun): raw wool; hair, pelt. surtac-ellangur-urcatu yangaris mámec párundanarcecut pelt-bear.GEN-seventeen hang.IMPERF.NON1 it.INESS house.hunter.BEN.DEF “there are seventeen bear pelts hung in the hunter’s house” surtac is one of the few words in High Eolic that have been borrowed from Carbian … Continue reading →

ngassú (adverb): again, yet again. send ngassú ta tendápam púrandatál nattúcemec you again NEG buy.PERF.TRANS chicken.all.ACC market.INESS “again you have not bought enough chicken at the market”

simím (noun): shy, timid. racát civa simímb-es Eválund-úrturvem lecá máca musanderc nindár enemy become.COMPL timid-ESS Eoleon-mighty.GEN.DEF so.that they vanquish.PASS simple.GEN “the might of Eoleon makes [its] enemies timid, and thus [it] can crush [them] easily”

veyáca- (transitive verb), imperfective veyácaram: to settle (something), settle down (in). yusurávarándurvem veyáca-ndám Arcúmal ancestors.father.GEN.DEF settle.in-COMPL.TRANS Arcúma.ACC “[my] father’s ancestors had settled in Arcúma” With veyácaram, the place being settled acts as a direct object, rather than being expressed in … Continue reading →

casárt (noun): pimple, zit; growth, bough, tree branch. ras tund yangaris casárt-ettárut MIR body hang.IMPERF.NON1 branch-ILL.DEF “a dead body is hanging from [that] branch”