pendumi

The base is innocent and the derivation is not. Pendi is to hang in the ordinary way: a coat on a hook, a lamp from a ceiling, a picture on a wall. Pendigi is to hang something up, the causative. Pendumi is pend- plus -um-, and it means to put a person to death by hanging.

-Um- is the suffix with no fixed meaning, the one the grammar describes as attaching an unpredictable sense that has to be learned word by word: kalkanumo is a heel from kalkano, kolumo a collar from kolo, butonumi is to do up buttons, plenumi is to fulfil. It is a small, closed set of curiosities, and this is the darkest word in it. There is nothing funny about that and no rule to derive it from; the language simply took its most whimsical suffix and used it once for the gallows.

How the site uses it. This is vocabulary for reading history: a chronicle, a court record, a novel set several centuries ago. Every example on this page is in the past, and that is deliberate. You need the word to read the Middle Ages and to read ekzekuti in context, and that is the whole of its job here. Pendumo is the execution itself, pendumilo the gallows, and neither belongs in a sentence about anybody alive.