Lemizh / English dictionary

pàf.

to place a person-acc upright somewhere-dat etc.;
self-transporting: to stand up, get up, perfect: to stand somewhere ditto;

Usage notes

This verb is not used for objects whose position can be determined with spatial verbs alone (see ‘stand’ in the English / Lemizh dictionary). It is only needed to distinguish a standing from a sitting or squatting person, whose coordinate systems share the same orientation.

Etymology

< NLem, LMLem pifn‑a
< MLem pif‑ne‑a ‘stand (still)’, compound of
  MLem pif‑a ‘move (purposefully)’
< OLem pifh‑ ‘move’ [intr.]
< PLem *pifh‑, i-reduplicated athematic present of
< PIE *peh₁‑
 —and—
  MLem ne‑a ‘not’
< OLem ne‑, inflected form of
< PLem *ne
< PIE *ne ‘no, not’

Cognates

Ved vi-pipāná- ‘sorting out’, probably Hit pippanzi ‘overturn’