Description:

The base meaning of the term 'uhíru' is as a verb 'to flow', and it appears to have a pseudoderivation from 'u', 'towards', and 'eru', 'water', with a stressed syllable vowel rasing to match the phonology of the abstract gender - there is some evidence from Davidson's surviving writing that this was intentional. It is a very commonly used verb and noun, and its modifier form 'uhírus' is a common adjective and adverb. It can have any of the following meanings:

• The act of running as a human or animal, or of a vehicle rolling down a road or tracks.
• The flow of a stream of liquid or gas, and the act of flowing as a verb.
• A river, stream, brook, creek, etc. as a flowing body of fresh water.
• A current in the ocean.
• Fluency in a language (as uhírus, fluent or fluently, or uhírusyn, fluency)

As a verb, it is a semitransitive noxaj verb of motion encoding a flowing manner, with an absolutive subject which is the thing running or flowing, and a dative indirect object which is the destination. It is actually sensible to say something like 'a uhíru nox uhíru ija zora' to mean 'the river runs to the sea', but it would be more idomatic to say 'a eru nox uhíru ija zora', 'the water runs to the sea', or 'a uhíru nox ija zora', and omit the head term, because the manner motion is already implicit in the noun.

A disintentive intransitive pali version that removes to focus on flow towards something is also commonly used.

As a modifier, uhíru means 'flowing', or 'flowingly'.