This article will cover various topics related to matters of the heart, everything from friendship to love and romance. Sex and sexuality is mostly dealt with elsewhere. This article will be updated periodically, as there is a lot to cover.

Falling in Love

Old Common had this concept and used the word 'trop', 'heart', as the central concept in its idioms for love, and for falling in love. Old Common used the idea of the heart being taken, or belonging to someone else for this kind of deep emotional fixation, and used 'trop' as a regular noxaj verb, much as modern High Common does, for the regular notion of love.

Modern High Common has borrowed the idea of 'falling' in love as its preferred idiom for this concept, although it is still the heart that falls, not the lover. This uses the verb 'wes', pertaining to falling not by one's own accord. The regular pali form is used to make the general statement that one has fallen in love, and the benefactive noxaj form is used to add a dative object of affection. Examples:

A trop na Toni sete wes.
3.SG.DEF.ABS heart ø 3.SG.DEF.NOM Tony NTRN.NP.PF.R fall.
Tony has fallen in love.

A trop na Toni noxot wes ija Xila.
3.SG.DEF.ABS heart ø 3.SG.DEF.NOM Tony STRN.NP.PF.R fall 3.SG.DEF.DAT Sheila.
Tony has fallen in love with Sheila.

There is a tendency, as with all Common possessives, to omit the possessor when it is clear form context, which tends to efface the real topic of the sentence, and it is not actually possible to completely front the topic, since it is a pendant is 'a trop'. Hence, you will see the Common 're' topic fronting idiom used relatively often with this structure. E.g.:

Re na Toni, a trop na spe'n noxot wes ija Xila.
About 3.SG.DEF.NOM Tony, 3.SG.DEF.ABS heart ø 3.SG.DEF.NOM that-one  STRN.NP.PF.R fall 3.SG.DEF.DAT Sheila.
As for Tony, he has fallen in love with Sheila.

The 'na spe'n' referring back to the antecedent can easily be omitted.