Description:

The term 'raxu' is primarily a verb and means to take, with the seconary meaning of to consume. As an unjoined compound with 'eru', 'water', 'raxu eru' means to drink (even if the think drunk is not water), and 'raxu' is very commonly used to mean drink on its own.

As a verb, raxu is a transitive skurun verb with an ergative drinker and an absolutive thing drunk in the meaning of to drink, or in the general sense, an ergative taken and an absolutive thing taken. Optionally, the party the object is taken from can be specified with the preposition 'ro' with a nominative object.

Raxu is often used in polite requests, especially in the irrealis mood. Example:

Je ti raxu y kaffe.
I(ERG) hit(IR.NP.IM) take a(ABS) coffee.

'I will have a coffee.'