Description:

The term 'samor' is used to refer to ending. It is also an important chained verb of aspect indicating an action is just ending or has just ended.

Noun:

As a noun, 'jerek' means an end, or finish. It can also convey the idea of 'the last one' of something.

The derived form 'jerekka' is the word in Common grammar for a 'term'.

Verb:

As a verb, 'jerek' means to end or finish. It is an intransitive pali verb which takes an absolutive subject which is the thing that is ending (not the thing that causes it to end). It can take a causative skurun valence change where an ergative ender is added.

'Jerek' also has the sense of deactivating a machine or device, and as such translates expressions like 'turn off' or 'deactivate' in English. The causative construction is very common for this sense. It is even used in senses where you would not in English, like 'end a light'.

Finally, 'jerek' is commonly used as a chained verb of aspect. As such, it implies that the action of the main verb is just ending or has just ended in the frame of reference of the sentence. The valence pattern of the overall contruction is that of the main verb.

Modifier:

As a modifier, 'jerekys' means 'last' as in 'last in sequence' or 'last remaining'.