Description:

The term 'herat' refers to joining and connection. The derived form epáliherat, or 'under join' refers to subordination.

Verb:

As a verb, 'herat' is a ditranstitive happat verb, taking an ergative agent which performs the joining, an absolutive patient which is the focal point of the two things which are joined, and a dative indirect object, which is the thing the object is joined to.

It has a commonly used antipassive noxaj semitransitive form which is idiomatically reflexive. The absolutive subject is both the joiner and the thing joined, and the dative object is the thing joined to - this is the sense you would use to say you are joining a club, for example.

There is also a commonly used disintentive where the dative indirect object is removed and the absolutive objects are two or more noun phrases joined by 'epis' - it is used to remove the typical asymmetric focus on the things joined and imply connective them equally to each other.

The ergative joiner can also be omitted from the regular happat form to comment that something is connected to something else without being specific about what made the connection - a connector is still implied, however. The antipassive could also be used to simply comment that something is joined to something else without necessarily requiring volition.

For the epáliherat form referring to subordination, the absolutive object is the thing subordinated, and the dative indirect object is the thing it is subordinated to.

Noun:

As a noun, 'herat' means a join, a connection or a link, such as a link in a chain.

The compounded form 'heratystaz', or 'join ship', is a word for 'train'. Sometimes, the word 'herat' alone is used as a word for train.

The derived form 'heratca' is the Common grammatical term for 'conjunction'.

Modifier:

The modifier form 'heratys' means connected or joined. In computer and internet terminology, it means 'online', and the related form ikhératys means 'offline'.