edun

See also: ẹdun

Basque

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /edun/, [e̞.ð̞ũn]

Etymology 1

The stem -(d)u- forms the basis of the indicative forms. This stem also appears in the dialectal participle eduki. A verbal noun edutzea is attested from the fifteenth century, derived from either eduki or *edun. The potential and imperative forms are built on the stem -za- which becomes -tza- after a prefix ending in n.

Verb

*edun

  1. (auxiliary, transitive) to have
    Synonyms: eduki, ukan
    Diru asko du.He has a lot of money.
  2. (auxiliary, transitive) used with transitive (nor nork) verbs
    Ikusi nahi zintudanI wanted to see you.
    Irakurri zuenHe read it.
Usage notes
  • Light verb constructions with egin usually take auxiliaries of this class, even when translated by intransitive verbs.
Elurra egin du.It's snowed.
Lo egiten dute.They're sleeping.
  • Northern dialects use the participle ukan for these forms.
Txakurra ikusi nahi ukan dut.I wanted to see the dog.
Diru asko ukango du.He will have a lot of money.
  • Southern dialects use the participle eduki for this verb in the sense "to have". As an auxiliary, the participle izan is used instead.
Txakurra ikusi nahi izan dut.I wanted to see the dog.
Diru asko edukiko du.He will have a lot of money.
  • Basque grammarians usually refer to this, along with the nor nori nork auxiliary, by the northern citation form ukan or by the reconstructed participle form *edun; as separative verb from the intransitive forms of izan.
Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Etymology 2

The stem is -i- in the indicative, and -ieza- in the potential and imperative. As in the nor-nori izan paradigm, forms with plural nor (absolutive) agreement are suffixed with -zki-. This marker is attached directly to the stem and precedes other agreement suffixes.

Verb

*edun

  1. (auxiliary, transitive, with dative agreement) used with transitive verbs that take a dative argument (nor nori nork)
    Eman nion.I gave it to her.
    Eman nizkion.I gave them to her.
    Irakurri zidan.He read it to me.
Usage notes
Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

See also

References

  • *edun” in Etymological Dictionary of Basque by R. L. Trask, sussex.ac.uk
  • A Brief Grammar of Euskara, p. 89, Itziar Laka, 1996, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
  • “Aditz Laguntzaile Batua”, in euskaltzaindia.eus (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia, 1973 August 10

Finnish

Noun

edun

  1. genitive singular of etu
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