basol
English: Translation
to blame or assign fault
Semantic Domain
Humans, Social Relations and Organization
Grammar
Emotions
Notes
Some Grammatical Forms:
- Basol (root form)
- Namasol (past tense: na- + masol, with /b/ substitution)
## Namasol\
- Meaning: blamed or assigned fault (past tense)\
- Breakdown: na- (past tense prefix) + masol (/b/ substitution)\
- Example sentence: Namasol ako sa binakal ko. (I blamed myself for what I bought.)
## Pibasol
• Meaning: to blame them (ongoing or general action)
• Breakdown: Pi- (transitivizer/patient infix) + basol
• Example sentence: Pibasol ko sira. (I blame them.)
## Binasol
• Meaning: blamed someone or something (past tense)
• Breakdown: -in- (past tense infix) + basol
• Example sentence: Binasol ko sira. (I blamed them.)
The examples above reflect a distinction between general/blame action (Pibasol) and completed/past blame action (Binásol).
## Grammatical Insights\
- Boie’nen uses prefixes (na-, pi-) and infixes (-in-) to indicate tense and grammatical relationships.\
- The /b/ substitution with /m/ in "masol" suggests a phonological process in the language.