High Eolic word of the day: hendassác

hendassár- (intransitive verb), imperfective hendassác: to be ashamed (of).

len hendassá-ndá varándettárut essát ndácasemecut
we be.ashamed-COMPL father.ILL.DEF later young.INESS.DEF
“we have become ashamed of [our] father since [our] youth”

The verb hendassác is morphologically speaking intransitive, but it can take an oblique in the illative case that effectively acts as the ‘object’ of shame (as with varán ‘father’ in the example sentence above).

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