li-romo (x) looks (so and so)

Part of Speech construction
Morphology li- + ~romo
    • (x) looks (so and so)
    • Literally (people) see (x) to be (V)
      Syntactic Restriction Generic subject
      • Example 2194:
        Emele na, li-ro wako tamwase.
        This woman really looks stunning.
      • Example 2202:
        Li-romo wako, ia idi li-madau.
        They looked beautiful, but they were scary.
        Example Comment
        dancing masks
        Example URL
        https://doi.org/10.24397/pangloss-0003351#S162

Related entries

  • Contains:
    • ~romo2 watch, look at ‹s.o., s.th.› / see ‹s.o., s.th.› / find ‹s.th., s.o.› to be so and so, mostly through visual perception