Description:

The term 'hal' means to put or place, with a secondary sense of to affix. It is primarily verbal in sense, but has some use as a noun or modifier.

Verb:

As a verb, 'hal' means to put, place, set, etc. It is a highly versatile and important verb. Grammatically, it is a happat verb of giving, with an ergative subject that is the placer, an absolutive object which is the thing placed, and a dative indirect object which is the place where the object is placed. 'Hal' very often takes modifiers that clarify the type of placement - a common one is 'pete', 'down', for something put down.

The antipassive form is also very commonly used, and idiomatically has a very strongly reflexive sense, although it can optionally introduce a thing placed introduced by the null preposition. For example, in the base form you could have something like:

Ja pocuk hanno hal a celuk ija kelem.
The child put the cup on the table.

But in the antipassive:

A pocuk noxota hal ija hen.
The child laid down on the bed.

'Hal' is also the verb you would use to talk about setting a setting in a computer program.

Noun:As a noun, 'hal' means something like a setting or placement. For example, a setting in a computer program would be a 'hal'.

Modifer:

The modifier form 'halys' is a way of saying set down or in place.

The deried form 'rohálys' means fixed or permanent, acting as an intensified version of 'halys'