Common Lexeme

fiteru

Keywords: hygiene, personal, cleaning

Pronunciation (IPA): 'fi.de.ru 
Part of Speech: term verb noun 
Class: skurun 
Forms: fiteru 
Glosses: immerse, dunk, dip, bathe, bath 

Description:

The term 'fiteru' means to immerse in a fluid - it comes from a compound of 'eru', water, and the preposition 'fit', inside.

Verb:

As a verb, fiteru is a transitive skurun verb meaning to immerse, dunk or bathe something or someone, taking an ergative subject which does the immersion and an absolutive thing or person immersed. It is very often used in an antipassive pali form where it is idiomatically reflexive, in the sense of have a bath, take a bath, or bathe oneself.

Noun:

As a noun, 'fiteru' refers to an instance of immersion or especially bathing. It is not an actual bathtub, that would be hokky.

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