High Eolic word of the day: yimbárte

yimbá- (ditransitive verb), imperfective yimbárte: to buy.

már yimbá-m navendacirandal allengettárut
she buy-PERF.DITRANS ring.new.ACC husband.ILL.DEF
“she bought [her] husband a new ring”

As with many other ditransitive verbs, the indirect object of yimbárte is in the illative case, since it implies some kind of movement towards the indirect object (in this case, of the direct object, or the entity being ‘bought’ in the event).

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