High Eolic word of the day: lavaratam

lavar- (transitive verb), imperfective lavaratam: to feed, graze (esp. of animals); to pick (e.g. flowers, fruit, etc.)

mbuttácur-partu lavar-ettám lárcúninut
sheep.GEN-six graze-IMPERF.NON1.TRANS slope.SUPERESS.DEF
“six sheep are grazing [up] on the slope”

Apart from locational obliques, the verb lavaratam often takes an indirect object in the benefactive case, which also roughly determines the location where the grazing or picking is going on, as in ca lavaram yangaral mbucacut ‘I picked fruit from the tree’, with yangar ‘fruit’ in the accusative and mbuca ‘tree’ in the benefactive.

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