leffo
Keywords: plumbing
| Pronunciation (IPA): | 'lef.fo |
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| Part of Speech: | term noun verb |
| Class: | happat |
| Forms: | leffo |
| Glosses: | pump |
Description:
The term 'lefo' refers to a pump, a device for moving fluids. Unlike in English, it does not refer to the up and down action of traditional hand pumps - Common speakers are used to mechanical pumps, so unlike in English, there are no residual sexual connotations.
Noun:
Quite simply, a device that causes a fluid such as a liquid or gas to move.
Verb:
As a verb, lefo is a ditransitive happat verb of giving with an ergative subject who is typically an operator of the pump, an absolutive substance pumped, and a dative destination of the thing pumped. Functionally, it can almost be interchangeabe with 'mora', to pipe.