hen
Keywords: furniture
| Pronunciation (IPA): | hen |
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| Part of Speech: | term noun verb |
| Class: | skurun |
| Forms: | hen, henys |
| Glosses: | bed, park, parking space, emplacement, embedded, ensconced, holder, have sex |
Description:
The term 'hen' has the most literal meaning of a bed, and is extended to mean any sort of holder or resting place. It is the main word used for parking, as in parking a vehicle. It also contains a sexual innuendo.
Noun:
As a noun, 'hen' is literally a bed or resting place, and can either be used directly or in compounds to refer to various kinds of resting places of holders. For example, it can be a parking space for a car, or a plot in which plants are planted. The word has a broader meaning and use than the English word 'bed' and is important in a lot of constructions having to do with placement and rest.
Verb:
As a verb, 'hen' is a transitive skurun verb with an ergative subject that is parking or placing something into a resting place or holder and an absolutive thing placed. It can also take a benefactive happat form where a dative object where parked or placed can be added. It is arguable wether the skurun or happat form is primary, but the skurun form is more common, and Common grammarians take it as the base form.
The skurun form is also used as a sexual innuendo much as in English, where if the absolutive object is a person, it implies having sex with that person, and furthermore casts the ergative subject as the more active or agentive partner. This is why it is important not to use this verb when you mean getting someone to go to sleep or tucking them into bed - use the causative form of 'hitaj', 'sleep', instead for that meaning.
Modifier:
The modifier form 'henys' means embedded, ensconced, parked, placed or at rest.