Auk

auk stem aukih infinitive
===verb===
#be in want, lack, severely need
#miss [person], feel sad from permanent or long-term absence of [person] 
#be in pain, be distressed or intensely sad, experience melancholy, suffer emotionally, grieve 
used in declarative statements as auki, subjunctive aukilj
=== preposition ===
# in severe need of, lacking, without
#* zieaja e ^uai auk: poor people lacking food
==Hunger pains, starvation ==
uaiaukil he/she/they are starving, they lack (what) to eat, they suffer for lack of food, they severely need to eat
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