Description:

The term 'hot' is a general term for kinds, types or varieties of things. It is genenrally used as a noun or as a derivational suffix (see below), but as a verb it is a skurun verb meaning to sort something into a type, where the ergative subject is the sorter and the absolutive object is the thing being sorted or typed.

Used with the article of uncertainty, 'ko', as 'ko hot', it forms the common expression for 'what type'.

Atuin also forms the suffix -(h)ot, which works as a generic head in compound terms for words that specify varieties of things. It can be affixed to a term or a modifier and derives a term.

As an affix, -(h)ot has the special phonological rule that the 'h' drops if thew word to which it is affixed ends in a consonant.

An example would be 'atuinot', 'humanity', from 'atuin', 'person', and -(h)ot.

As well, 'hot' is the basic word for a social class or classiifcation of any kind.