Description:

The term 'ponte' comes from Old Common and originally meant to purely to throw something away, but has since acquired a slightly more negative connotation and can also have to sense of "waste." As a noun it refers to that which is discarded, which can be more clear with the -ka ending, which intensifies its meaning. As a verb, it means to discard. It can also be a very pejorative word for breaking up with someone. It is a skurun verb with an ergative discarder and an absolutive thing discarded. The modifier form is more of less a general pejorative or negative descriptor, as well as referring to something literally discarded.

The intensified form 'ropónte' more clearly has the sense of 'waste'. You can get the sense of 'waste on' by using the happy benefactive form with the thing wasted on as the dative argument.