Description:

The term 'samor' is used to refer to beginnings. It is also an important chained verb of aspect indicating an action is just starting.

Noun:

As a noun, 'samor' means a beginning, start or commencement.

In Common grammar, 'samorka' is the word for all types of determiners, whether auxiliary verbs or articles.

Verb:

As a verb, 'samor' means to start or begin. It is an intransitive pali verb which takes an absolutive subject which is the thing that is beginning (not the thing that causes it to begin). It can take a causative skurun valence change where an ergative starter is added.

'Samor' also has the sense of activating a machine or device, and as such translates expressions like 'turn on' or 'activate' in English. The causative construction is very common for this sense. It is even used in senses where you would not in English, like 'start a light'.

Finally, 'samor' is commonly used as a chained verb of aspect. As such, it implies that the action of the main verb is just commencing in the frame of reference of the sentence. The valence pattern of the overall contruction is that of the main verb.