Common Lexeme

xeko

Keywords: people, animals, life

Pronunciation (IPA): 'ʃe.go 
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.

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