Common Lexeme

eru

Keywords: material, liquid

Pronunciation (IPA): 'e.ru 
Part of Speech: term noun verb 
Class: noxaj 
Forms: eru, wero eru, waseru, erus, erukijas 
Glosses: water, liquid, urinate, urine, piss, pee, piss on, wet, watery 

Description:

The base meaning of the term 'eru' is liquid water.

Noun:

As a noun, eru has a number of senses, incding the element water (so ice would be a kind of water in this case), liquid water specifically, or liquids in general. There is some idomatic ambiguity that requires context to resolve.

'Eru' can also be a polite and euphemistic way to refer to pee, piss, urine, etc. Compounded with 'was', 'false, bad', as 'waseru' it means urine clearly and explicitly and is ruder.

Verb:

As a verb, eru is a semitransitive noxaj verb meaning to give water, or to water something such as plants. It takes an absolutive waterer and a dative indirect object being watered.

As a verb meaning to urinate, there are two form: the polite way using 'wero eru' as a compound verb, and the impolite way using 'waseru'.

The 'wero eru' form acts as an intransitive pali verb, with an absolutive subject that is urinating.

The 'waseru' form acts as a transitive skurun verb with an ergative urinator and an absolutive thing urinated on. the letter is often omitted, but its presence is uncerstood and helps serve to make 'waseru' more rude in its tone and implications. It can be used metaphorically as a way to indicate utter disrepect for the absolutive object rather than to denote literal urination.

Modifier:

The modifier for 'erus' means watery or wet. If needed to be unambiguous that something is just wet and not watery, the derived form 'erukijas', 'like that which is watered'. may be used.

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