{"id":14,"date":"2010-11-03T06:50:25","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T05:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/?p=14"},"modified":"2010-11-07T14:52:27","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T13:52:27","slug":"high-eolic-word-of-the-day-naravam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"High Eolic word of the day: n\u00c3\u00a1ravam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>n\u00c3\u00a1ra-<\/strong><\/em> (monotransitive verb), imperfective <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/W_HE_004_naaravam.mp3\">n\u00c3\u00a1ravam<\/a><\/strong><\/em>: to eat.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\ntavunga ca <strong>n\u00c3\u00a1ra<\/strong>-m mbutt\u00c3\u00a1cur<\/em><br \/>\n<small>yesterday I eat.PERF-TRANS sheep.GEN<\/small><br \/>\n&#8220;I ate mutton yesterday&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>n\u00c3\u00a1ravam<\/em> is a monotransitive verb (that is, it can only take one object) which belongs to the class of High Eolic verbs whose objects are in the genitive, unlike normal intransitive verbs, whose objects are in the accusative. This is clear if you compare the following two sentences &#8211; the first one using <em>n\u00c3\u00a1ravam<\/em>, the second using a more typical monotransitive verb, <em>ngur\u00c3\u00a1cacam<\/em> &#8216;to devour&#8217;. Look especially closely at the case-marking suffixes of the object <em>mbutt\u00c3\u00a1c<\/em> &#8216;sheep&#8217;:<\/p>\n<p><em>ca n\u00c3\u00a1ram mbutt\u00c3\u00a1c-<strong>ur<\/strong>vem<\/em><br \/>\n&#8220;I ate the sheep&#8221; (more literally &#8220;I ate of the sheep&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p><em>ca ngur\u00c3\u00a1cupam mbutt\u00c3\u00a1c-<strong>al<\/strong>ut<\/em><br \/>\n&#8220;I devoured the sheep&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>n\u00c3\u00a1ra- (monotransitive verb), imperfective n\u00c3\u00a1ravam: to eat. tavunga ca n\u00c3\u00a1ra-m mbutt\u00c3\u00a1cur yesterday I eat.PERF-TRANS sheep.GEN &#8220;I ate mutton yesterday&#8221; n\u00c3\u00a1ravam is a monotransitive verb (that is, it can only take one object) which belongs to the class of High Eolic &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/?p=14\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[9,11,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}