Common Lexeme

pallun

Keywords: products, toys

Pronunciation (IPA): 'pal.lun 
Part of Speech: term noun verb 
Class: skurun 
Forms: pallun pallunys, pallunysyn 
Glosses: balloon, tire, grow, inflate, inflation 

Description:

The term 'pallun' comes from English and means 'balloon'. There were a number of variant pronunciations and spellings in the middle period, but High Common has broadly settled on the modern form which was settled and promoted by the AXZ.

In a noun context it means literally a balloon, and also in many regions in more colloquial speech it can have the alternative sense of 'tire', perhaps coming from its verbal sense of 'inflate'. The derived form 'pallunysyn' usually has the sense of 'inflation'.

In a verb context, it is an transitive skurun verb meaning to inflate something. It is very often used in the antipassive with a sense of grow, as a result of some unspecified forcing. 

The modifier form 'pallunys' means something like subject to inflation or being inflated and could apply to anything from a leak balloon to a man trying to make his muscles bigger.

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