Common Lexeme

jenu

Keywords: prepositions, modifiers, adjectives, adverbs, relative clauses, dependent clauses

Pronunciation (IPA): je.nu 
Part of Speech: modifier 
Class: preposition 
Forms: jenu, jenun 
Glosses: onto, land, put on, placement, landing 

Description:

The modifier 'jenu' has the sense of the referent moving onto the surface of its object. It has the sense of placing or landing. It does not require an object, but may take an object in the nominative case.

The term form 'jenun' is a word for the act of placement or landing as a noun - it is an idiom for placing an object on a surface or landing a plane. It as a typical noxaj verb of motion as a verb It has a common causative form where an agent who lands the plane or places the object is added in the ergative case.

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