hulta
Keywords: prepositions, modifiers, adjectives, adverbs, relative clauses, dependent clauses
| Pronunciation (IPA): | 'hul.da |
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| Part of Speech: | modifier |
| Class: | preposition, pali |
| Forms: | hulta, hultan, rohúltas, ikhúltas |
| Glosses: | moving around, going on, agitating, shaking, agitate, shake, move, happen, event, act, action, occurrence, verb, immobile, paralyzed, paralysis |
Description:
The modifier 'hulta' means moving around or shaking. If given a nominative object, its referent is moving around that object.
Derived as the term 'hultan', it forms a very common and useful verb meaning to move around, to agitate oneself, to happen, to go on, etc. It is an intransitive pali verb. It is used in the common greeting:
Ko se hultan.
What's going on?
This expression means more of less literally 'what shakes'. It can also be used in a benefactive sense to greet someone with an inquiry as to how they are doing, as in this polite greeting to an equal:
Ko nox hultan iju sepu?
The(ABS.Q) go(NP.IM) shake the(2.DAT) cousin?
'How are you doing?'
It can also be used in a skurun causative sense where an ergative subject is added that is the shaker.
Other uses of 'hultan' are as the Common grammatical term for 'verb', and as the word for an act or event. It is neutral about the intentionality of the act of happening.
The derived form 'rohútas' means 'eventual' or 'eventually'.
The derived form 'ikhúltas' means immobile or paralyzed. Na ikhúlta is paralysis.