The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary
Value -um-
- Language:
- Tagalog
- Parameter:
- verbal infix "used to express simple, single or general acts. (a) simple or single performance: , to read; , to write. (b) general acts, like the functions of nature and the natural acts of the human body: , to rain; , to storm; , (the sun) to shine; or , to look; , to become painful; , to run; , to walk, to go.". "verbs like , formed with bases that designate natural conditions (cf. 'storm'), occur in topicless sentences ... Many of the bases that occur in intransitive verbs also occur as the bases of adjectives and the verbs, which may be called VERBS OF 'BECOMING,' denote the acquisition of the quality expressed by the adjective.". [9e626a226200aaa61c71ab405529ef42]
- References
- English 1986; Panganiban 1966