Common Lexeme

poet

Keywords: animal, human, body, body parts, organs

Pronunciation (IPA): 'po.et 
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.

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