Form:     jasāma [N.SG]

•   1. a region of land where there is very little rainfall; a desert desert310  

• • is a type of     anjēlti (uncultivated)
• Example Sentences:

• wā temle jatatēn ien ē jaliþa ñi sāen rū xō rā jatōna nō rā jasāma aþ ñi māniþa marō rū jatōna rā jasāma jaλāon mē;
  He did not tell me the reason that he went one day from there along the road to the desert and became lost and alone from the road into the wide desert.
  

• te ien la jaxūna pa anwōra sū jasāma jamāxxānwe jawīwa ōl sū jañūna ēnne jakōna āñ;
  It seemed to be a pattern of emptiness on top of the bare wide plain of the desert between two lines of pebbles.
  

• temle jaþēma ien la jasāma nāra ñe jamāxxānwe ē pa jakōni ī pa anλāon nāpie ī pa jaxūna wā;
  He described to me that the whole desert was like a vast expanse of gravel, and too much width, and no pattern.
  

• il jalōna wīor il antielen ōrra ñamma jarēþa ānen jatōna ja ñi japōññe wā nīkan anhāri ja ñi ankewōri ī il tema jamīra ñe ñamma sanārme jaþāla ā masāma sakū;
  After he had travelled for four days without the road becoming found and with the water becoming used up also then he felt a sudden fear as if the desert came to him and took hold of him with its hand.
  

• il ñi anlōki ī il ñi jēwār rūjapēxa ōrra il ñi sāen sū jasāma ī;
  When it was light again, the lake had gone and he was in the desert again.
  

• ñi jasāma jamāλa il antārranni il antielen;
  The desert becomes green during rain and afterwards.
  

• la jasāma pa anālhāri antēti jamūñi;
  The desert contains the bones of an ancient ocean.
  

• • Stems for this form:
  • •     -sām-