Description:

The term 'anno' has the base meaning of 'parent', and is the Old Common word for mother or father. In Old Common, the gender modifiers lijy and cejy would be used as needed to express female or male, respectively. In modern High Common, the gender prefix forms with more intrinsic gender, lijánno and cejánno, are popular, as are the borrowed intimate/affectionate words for mother (mommy, ma) and father (daddy, pa), 'mamma' and 'pappa', attached.

Anno is also used as a respectful head term when addressing social superiors such as bosses, especially if they are older than you. The use of familial versus non-familiar respect terms is more prevalent in some NWO states than others, but is ubiquitous in Common throughout NWO controlled terroritory. As a term of respect, gendered forms are not generally used.

Used as a verb, anno is a transitive skurun vern meaning 'to parent, to give birth, to sire, or to give rise to something'. It takes an ergative subject which is the parent and an absolutive object which is that which arises or is born. It suggests that the subject caused the object without necesssarily deliberately creating it or guiding its development.

In the derived 'annoka' form, it is a word for 'offspring', literally 'that which is given rise'.

Anno is not one of the main words for causing, but it is popular in this role by metaphorical extension from its base meaning of parent.