~romo² watch, look at ‹s.o., s.th.› / see ‹s.o., s.th.› / find ‹s.th., [...]

Part of Speech	verb, transitive
Phonetic Form	(i·)romo
Tanema Equivalent	~runi
Lovono Equivalent	~eti

1. • watch, look at ‹s.o., s.th.›

   • • Example 2196:
       

       U-rom' ene u-ejau!

       Watch me carefully!

     • Example 2197:
       

       Ni-romo lek’ one emele tae.

       I can't have any eye contact with my female cross-cousin.

2. • see ‹s.o., s.th.›

   • • Example 1229:
       

       Ka i-ka i-koie ne moe ka i-romo emel’ iape i-wene teve iawo.

       As he walked into his house, he saw his wife lying by the fire.

       Example URL

       https://doi.org/10.24397/pangloss-0003353#S14

3. • find ‹s.th., s.o.› to be so and so, mostly through visual perception

   Syntactic Restriction

   tropative construction, foll. by secondary predicate

   • • Example 2198:
       

       A-ro wako?

       [You see (her) beautiful] Do you find her beautiful?

     • Example 2199:
       

       Ni-romo makone iaipa wako po pi-pinoe.

       [I see your dances (to be) good] I'm really enjoying those dances you've been performing.

       Example URL

       https://doi.org/10.24397/pangloss-0003351#S62

     • Example 2200:
       

       Dapa li-romo i-aiae ngasune nga ene.

       They find it (to be) difficult, as much as I do.

       Example Comment

       about the payment of school fees

Related entries

• Heterosemes:
  • ~romo¹ look
  • ~romo³ be careful, beware
• Is Part of:
  • li-romo (x) looks (so and so)
  • li-romo nga it looks like
• See also:
  • ~lengi¹ feel ‹s.th.›; perceive through senses or intuition / hear ‹s.o., s.th.› / listen / hear that, learn that (s.th. happened) / hear from ‹s.o.›, have contact ‹s.o.› by phone or mail / find ‹s.th., s.o.› to be so and so, through hearing or feeling