High Eolic word of the day: nírat

nírat (adverb), also niyír: very well, splendid, excellent, best.

nírat carlavut rissángacam mullatal
excellent mother.DEF bake.ITER.TRANS bread.ACC
“[my] mother bakes excellent bread” (= bakes bread very well)

Note that nírat only occurs in the adverbial sense of ‘excellent’. The noun mussán must be used in order to convey excellence of a specific referent (rather than an action or process).

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