Common Lexeme

ulua

Keywords: spatial, position

Pronunciation (IPA): 'u.lu.a 
Part of Speech: modifier 
Class: preposition, noxaj 
Forms: ulua, uluan, wasuluan 
Glosses: up, high, height, ascend, ascent, rise, vomit 

Description:

The modifier 'ulua' refers to something that is objectively considered to be high up. It can take an object and as a preposition is considered to be a preposition of motion.

The derived term 'uluan' means height in general (but not stature of a person, at least not by itself). As a verb, it is a normal noxaj verb of motion meaning to ascend, where the dative indirect object is the thing ascended, and as a disintentive pali intransitive verb it means just to rise.

The derived word 'wasuluan', a compound from 'was', 'false or bad', and uluan literally means 'rise badly', and is the word for vomit. As a noun it means 'vomit', and as a verb it is a pali verb meaning to vomit which takes an absolutive subject that is the one that vomits. It can be used metaphorically to desribe all kinds of bad outcomes and creations.

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