High Eolic word of the day: veyácaram

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 a spatial/oblique case. The verb is also often used without a direct object (but still with transitive morphology), in the sense “settle down for good”.

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