poet
Keywords: animal, human, body, body parts, organs
| Pronunciation (IPA): | 'po.et |
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| Part of Speech: | term noun |
| Class: | skurun |
| Forms: | poet, poetot |
| Glosses: | nipple, teat, mammal, nurse |
Description:
The term 'poet' means 'nipple' ot 'teat'. The word for mammal, 'poetot', literally 'the nursing kind', is derived from it.
As a verb, poet is a skurun transitive verb meaning to nurse, typically to breastfeed, but the same word can also be used to mean to nurse form a bottle. It takes an ergative subject which is providing the milk, and an absolutive sobbject that is the thing nurses. Example:
Ja mamma te poet a pepe.
The (ERG) mommy hit(NP.IM) nurse the(ABS) baby.
'The mother is nursing the baby.