Common Lexeme

was

Keywords: true, false, good, evil

Pronunciation (IPA): was 
Part of Speech: modifier 
Class: skurun 
Forms: was, wasyn, wasno, was- 
Glosses: false, fake, wrong, bad, badness, evil, malign 

Description:

The modifier 'was' has the core meaning of 'false' and extends to meanings of fake or bad as well as statements of factual correctness. Derived as a noun, it is a general word for falsity or evil or a fake thing. It also has a tight binding modifier form 'wasno' to apply to a specific modifier instead of the to head term.

'Was' is also commonly used as a verb. As such it is a transitive skurun verb meaning to wrong someone. It takes an ergative subject which is the one who commits the wrong and an absolutive object which is the thing or person wronged or maligned.

Was can be used in a prefix form was- that derives a bad or fase version of the term it applies to.

Compare to 'zra', attached, meaning 'true'.

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