Common Lexeme

leffo

Keywords: plumbing

Pronunciation (IPA): 'lef.fo 
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.

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