High Eolic word of the day: ungat

ungat (particle): sometimes, occasionally, several times.

ungat már lersángacam Arandála-ttár yirmandatan carlavecut
sometimes he/she come.ITER.TRANS Arandála-ILL distant.ANTESS mother.BEN.DEF
“he/she sometimes comes all the way to Arandála [to see] his/her mother”

Originally derived from ung ‘day’, ungat conveys the meaning that the event in the phrase occurs several times, typically over a longer period. It is one of several adverbial particles in High Eolic that require a specific aspect/mode to be used in the verb of the phrase in which it occurs – in this case, the iterative, which itself carries the meaning of a repeated action.

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