Description:

The term 'cel' means a moment or a period is time. It is also the time word for the specific unit of the hour. It can be used as a suffix to derive words for times. Derived as a modifier with -(y)s as celys, it is a modifier of frequency and means 'hourly' and can also be a modifier of opinion meaning 'timely'.

Derived back into a term with -(y)n as celysyn it means the concept of time in general, or the notion of timeliness. Another way to refer to the concept of time in general is with the irregular form 'cil'. This form appeared in the early to middle periods by analogizing using Old Common's gender system - 'cel' is a concrete term, and 'cil' was derived by analogy by raising the vowel in the pattern of Old Common.

As a verb, cel is a transitive skurun verb meaning to measure the time some activity takes, or how long it takes someone or something to perform an activity. It takes an ergative subject who is the measurer and an absolutive object which is the person or thing or event measured. In a form where the object is a performer of an action rather than the action itself, the action can be references as a dependent clause on the absolutive object.