xeko
Keywords: people, animals, life
Pronunciation (IPA): | 'ʃe.go |
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Part of Speech: | term verb noun |
Class: | pali |
Forms: | xeko, xekosyn |
Glosses: | grow, growth, grown-up, adult |
Description:
The term 'xeko' means growth in general, or to grow.
As a noun, it refers to some specific growth, or growth in general. In its derived form 'xekosyn', it is the clinical, technial term for an adult, of either a human or animal, without carrying the positive or human connotations of 'atuin'.
As a verb, it is an intransitive pali verb meaning to grow. It take an absolutive subject that is the grower. It can be used in a causative skurun form with te where an ergative agent which causes, guides or promotes the growth is added - for example in edxpression like to grpw crops.