High Eolic word of the day: yurindaram

yurind- (transitive verb), imperfective yurindaram: to extend, spread out; to raise (one’s arms).

már yurind-am assembalá yusúnin
he spread.out.PERF-TRANS paper.ACC.PL floor.SUPERESS
“he spread out [his] papers [around himself] on the floor”

Use of the verb yurindaram often implies movement or distribution away from the agent as a fixed point (from which an object or substance is ‘extended’), even if this is not otherwise marked in the sentence.

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