Tag Archives: heolic

timan (noun): empty, hollow; hollow, cave, cavern. civa sirmes timand-emec cártevisut become.COMPL snake.ESS cave-INESS mountains.SUBL.DEF “there are snakes in caves in the mountains”

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 … Continue reading →

crás (noun): fat; fatty; lard, fat. amaracúmarangut ngúya crás-era-lurcandes people.valley.EL.DEF COP.IMPERF fat-SOC-lazy.ESS “the people of [this] valley are fat and lazy”

yanár (noun): weak, frail, weakling. ma-mbatá-yanár-assut sáta lepangam lambúcalut his-offspring-weak-ATTR.DEF FUT destroy.PERF.TRANS family.ACC.DEF “his weakling sons will destroy the family”

mucún (noun): purple, purple-colored; purple dye; Aurelian. ta ca langundaram mucúnd-al NEG I wear.IMPERF.TRANS purple-ACC “I [will] not wear purple” The word mucún originally meant ‘Aurelian’ (the Proto-Eolic root likely had the meaning ‘black-haired’ or ‘dark-haired’), and only came to … Continue reading →

yahan- (intransitive verb), imperfective yahanat: to laugh. varándut múca issá len yahan-at father.DEF fall.PERF so.that we laugh-IMPERF.1 “[our] father fell [down], so we laughed”

lambúc (noun): family, lineage. lambúca-Vándangá nilissásam ndácasa-tutúl lecá capáyisam racátal family-Vánda.EL.PL send.IMPERF.NON1.TRANS young-many.ACC so.that fight.IMPERF.NON1.TRANS enemy.ACC “the families of the Vánda [province] have sent many young [people] to fight the barbarians” Listen to the example sentence here: W_HE_118_lambuuc_example

vac (noun): coin (especially silver); unit of currency. arcá minaram vac-ur-tuleval cá-púsamacúmbangut indeed give.PERF.1.TRANS coin-GEN-ten.ACC this-horse.lame “[I] paid ten silver coins for this lame horse!” vac is most often used either explicitly for coins made of silver, or with the … Continue reading →

úcan (noun): meadow, pasture. larend-ecámúyel nartáyis úcand-evis flower-white.colored.ATTR.PL grow.IMPERF.NON1 meadow-SUBL “there are white flowers [all] around the meadows”

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 … Continue reading →