Description:

The term 'pak' is an early period borrowing from English that means to pack, stow or put away.

Verb:

As a verb 'pak' is a transitive skurun verb which takes an agent performing the packing as its ergative subject, and has two basic possible objects, either a thing which is packed away or the place or container where it is packed (this will typically be a location or container intended for storage to be a suitable object for this verb).

In the skurun form, if the absolutive object is the thing packed away, the location or container can be specified with 'e'. If the absolutive object is the container or location, then the thing packed can be specified with the null preposition. In the antipassive pali form, the absolutive subject is the agent performing the packing, and the thing packed and location or container can be specified with these prepositions.

There is a happat benefactive form which is sometimes used, which promotes both potential objects to core arguments. In this case, the thing packed is the absolutive direct object, and the place or container is the dative indirect object. This form would be used to give more or less equal emphasis to both objects.

Noun:

As a noun, 'pak' means a package, or a place or container for storage. 'Pakka' is sometimes seen to specify the things packed and 'pakkija' to specify a storage location - it is a word for suitcase.

Modifier:

As a modifier, 'pakys' means packed or stowed away.