triax
Keywords: medicine
| Pronunciation (IPA): | 'tri.aʃ |
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| Part of Speech: | term noun verb |
| Class: | skurun |
| Forms: | triax, triaxys, triaxysyn, triaxnyfe |
| Glosses: | priority, prioritisation, prioritise, triage, priority level, triage level, prioritised, urgent, important, class |
Description:
The term 'triax' entered Common sometime during the late early period with its literal English meaning of prioritisation of emergency patients in a medical situation. It retains that usage, but has become the general word for 'priority'.
Noun:
As a noun, 'triax' is a priority, and the implication is usually a high priority unless a clarifying modifier is used or unless indicated by tone that something else might be meant. In a medical setting it continues to have its original meaning. The derived form 'triaxysyn' refers to prioritisation in general.
The compound 'triaxnyfe' can be used to express the idea of a prioritisation class or level.
Verb:
As a verb, 'triax' is a skurun verb meaning to prioritise with an ergative subject doing the prioritising and either a particular absolutive object, which would imply that that object has been prioritised highly, or a set of objection, which would imply that they have been set in order of priority. In a medical setting it continues to have its original meaning.
'Triax' is very often used in its pali antipassive form, where rarely for Common it is a good, true antipassive and not a reflexive in disguise. It means that the absolutive subject is enagged in prioritising something, what what is being prioritised can be specified periphrastically with the null preposition. The antipassive places more emphasis on the subject's experience in performing prioritisation.
Modifier:
As a modifier, 'triaxys' means prioritised (and can take a tight-binding modifer to say prioritised how) or colloquially it can just mean urgent and important.