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vendá- (transitive verb), imperfective vendátam: to arrange, come to an agreement, make a deal (with someone); to join (someone), to join (someone) in leaving.

ca vendá-m pandulut párundacirut
I arrange.with.PERF-TRANS brother.ACC.DEF house.DEL.DEF
“I came to an agreement with my brother with regard to the house”

The verb vendátam has a somewhat interesting form of alignment whereby the person with whom the deal or arrangement is made (or the person one joins) acts as the direct object of the verb, while the object of the arrangement (or the place left) can only be expressed as an oblique in the delative. The initial meaning was the one of joining someone in leaving a place, or persuading someone to leave or abandon something.

humbert (noun): bored, tired; peaceful, still; well-adjusted to, tame.

máca racú humbert-es cúrcevanissándang
they become.IMPERF tame-ESS year.plentiful.EL
“[people] become tame in years of plenty”

yettár (noun): crow.

cránartandús cuttúndárc yettára-hangúndur
sky.black exist.COMPL.CAUS crow-bird.flock.GEN
“flocks of crows have made the sky black”

pursa (adverb): slightly, a little, to a certain extent.

tavunga lahessut pursa civa tilles ráya mattár párunda-Marcecut
yesterday river.DEF a.little become.COMPL flood under it.ILL house-Marcut.BEN
“the river flooded (a little) up to Marcut’s house yesterday”

cúmarsand (noun), also cúmars: carriage, wagon.

ta cúmarsa-rándecut carettá nan-arangemec
NEG carriage-king-BEN.DEF all-hamlet.INESS
“the king’s carriage does not rest in every village”

cúmarsand is a noun of Classical Eolic origin, derived from cúlamvar-sánder, literally “four-wheels” (from cúlam “wheel”, High Eolic cúlan, and sánder “four”, High Eolic sándar).

Listen to the example sentence here: W_HE_059_cuumarsand_example

mahá- (intransitive verb), imperfective mahác: to sigh.

essát már mahá-ngac yat tísat varná
later he/she sigh-ITER.NON1 when in.the.morning wake.up.MID.PERF
“he/she tends to sigh after he/she wakes up in the morning”

lacán (noun): soft, light (touch or pressure).

callingut evándá lacánd-ur
snow.DEF cover.COMPL soft-GEN
“the snow has covered [the ground] lightly”

lacán is used mostly or exclusively to describe intensity of touch, and does not often appear with a figurative meaning. It is predominantly used in an oblique/adverbial sense, although it can also appear as a standalone noun or modifier (as in langu-lacán “a loose dress”).

tanucá- (transitive verb), imperfective tanucáram: to draw, paint.

mbárut tanucá-m arnúsalut ndúsur
son.DEF draw.PERF-TRANS mountaintop.ACC.DEF coal.GEN
“[my] son has drawn [a picture of] the mountaintop with [a piece of] coal”

tarás (noun): rider, traveller, passenger.

tísat tarás-Arandálangut mucám
in.the.morning traveller-Arandála.EL.DEF leave.PERF.TRANS
“the traveller from Arandála left this morning”

marcána (adverb): next to, around, all around.

marcána civa tundesá essát rattamec
all.around become.COMPL body.ESS.PL later fighting.INESS
“there were [dead] bodies all around after the battle”