Dairwueh: Verbs for possession

Dairwueh almost conforms to the average European way of having a verb primarily used for such constructions. However, it is not a direct translation of 'to have'. In fact, there is not one verb but two, with certain distinctions.

The two main verbs are gadek and surdun. Gadek is used when the possession of a thing is seen as something beneficial. On the opposing side, surdun obviously stands for ungainful possession.

By adding a reflexive morpheme, gadek and surdun become intensive. The intensive of surdun basically means 'being overburdened by, succumbing to', whereas gadek in its intensive form tends to be used to denote strategic, decisive advantages given by the possessed thing.

Certain things that English could express using have is not expressed that way in Dairwueh. Diseases are suffered, pusteg, you are born, imbet, for your relatives (who are in the dative), younger relatives are born to the status of having you as a relative, placing you in the dative. The verbs used for expressing relatives also are used to state other things about relations. These complications require a small diversion:

eme imbewis nesepalivit resepanivik 

I     born.past saints.dat criminals.dat.and
I have saints and criminals for relatives/my relatives are saints and criminals

 ver imbewis loparvit

I born.past brother.dat - I have a(n older) brother

lopar imbewiŋ vevit brother born.pastIIIsg me.dat - I have a (younger) brother 

If one wants to express a multitude of relatives, if there is a single one older than the person whose relatives are being listed, that person is the subject, if all are younger, he's the indirect object.

ver kar imbewis sopind

I him-dat born-1sg_past cousin - I was born his cousin

kar vevit imbewiŋ sopind

 he me-dat ... - he was born my cousin

Generally, ungainful but unharmful possession is expressed using gadek. However, if there is a need to distinguish neutral status from beneficial status - which does happen on occasion, more so in the literary and legal languages than in colloquial varieties, a number of periphrastic constructions are used, such as "X is Y-dat", "Y holds X", "Y took X" for the neutral type.

EDITS:
-ci is obsolete and replaced by -ivit. -k assimilates the -t in -ivit. 'wemi' replaced by 'vevit', 'eme' replaced by 'ver', komi by kar, kon by ker