Description:

The term 'alue' means to rent. It's origin is not known, other than the fact it is not from Old Common. It looks a bit like the French à louer, but this is not possible to confirm. It doesn't always pertain solely to dwellings, building space and land, but that is its core meaning.

Verb:

Unlike in English, 'alue' cannot be used in both the sense of 'I rent the flat to him' and 'I rent the flat from him'. It always has the former sense, so in order to translate the latter sense, the dative rentee is typically fronted. Alue is a ditransitive happat verb with an ergative owner of the rented property, an absolutive thing rented and a dative rentee.

Noun:

As a noun, 'alue' means rent, as in that which is paid for the right to use a property. The derived form alueca is generally the word for landlord, and the form aluekija is used for tenant.