Description:

The term 'til' is an Old Common word meaning 'study' that is highly productive in modern High Common to derive words for various scientific and academic disciplines.

Verb:

As a verb, 'til' is a semitransitive noxaj verb meaning to study something or research something, with an absolutive person studying and a dative thing studied. It has the sense of trying to learn about something as opposed to trying to evaluate or judge something.

Noun:

As a noun, 'til' is a study or discipline, or a study as an the product of an act of study, or study in general. The abstractified form 'tilysyn' refers to academia, research or study as a generality. The derived form 'tilka' is a word for student, but in Common is also has the sense of a researcher, so it does not necessarily always connote inexperience.

Deivational Suffix:

As a derivational suffix, '-til' is often foind as an ending for words for scientific and academic disciplines, or activities trying to maintain the pretense of serious study.