uljy
Keywords: discourse
| Pronunciation (IPA): | 'ul.jÉ™ |
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| Part of Speech: | term verb noun |
| Class: | skurun |
| Forms: | uljy, wero uljy |
| Glosses: | meet, encounter, connect, collide, rendez-vous. meeting, collision, connection, introduce, be introduced |
Description:
The term 'uljy' refers to people or objects which come into juxtaposition and affect each other in some way but do not become physically joined. It is the main word for meetings and collisions.
Verb:
As a verb, 'uljy' means to meet or to collide. It is a transitive skurun verb taking an ergative subject and an absolutive object, but both of its arguments meet each other equally, so this framing is used to place the focus on one actor, the ergative subject, who meets the absolutive object.
Another common form of this verb is the pali antipassive form where the subjects who meet are both in the absolutive case and linked with 'epis'. This form places equal emphasis on the actors and has more of a connotation of having a meeting as opposed to being introduced.
The sense of 'introduce' can be made by adding 'wero' as a modifying term as a periphrastic causative - then the ergative subject is the person who makes the introduction and the absolutive objects, connected by epis, are the persons introduced to each other.
Noun:
As a noun, 'uljy' means a meeting or introduction (the latter sense can be made more clear by adding 'wero' as a modifying term, much as in the verb form).