Description:

The term 'neka' is an early loanword, apparently from Spanish. It means to deny or refuse someone something. As a noun, it means a denial or refusal or denial or refusal in general. As a verb, it is treated as a happat verb of communciation, although it can refer to much beyond communciation. It takes an ergative refuser, an absolutive thing or statement refused or denies, and a dative party the denied thing is denied to.

The disintentive skurun form is often used to deny the truth value of something as opposed to deny someone access to something.

Example:

Ja Mari hanne neka y jymjym ija paluh
Mary denied the dog a treat.