ekami

Etymology
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Verb

 * 1)  to begin to love, fall in love with
 * 2) * Stellan Engholm, Vivo vokas, Ĉapitro 3,
 * — Jam la unuan fojon, kiam ni estis kune, mi ekamis vin, li diris, ekamis, kiel kulpa pentanto ekamas homon, kiu akceptas lin.
 * “The first time we were together, I fell in love with you,” he said, “[I] fell in love as a guilty penitent falls in love with someone who accepts him.”
 * 1) * Vladimir Okc (translator), Unuetaĝa Usono (Одноэтажная Америка / Little Golden America) by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov, Chapter 11,
 * Jam vespere ŝajnas, ke li sukcesis ekami la urbeton.
 * In the evening it already seems that he has managed to fall in love with the town.