Common Lexeme

lecce

Keywords: animal, human, organism, food

Pronunciation (IPA): 'let.ʃe 
Part of Speech: term noun 
Class: skurun 
Forms: lecce, lecces 
Glosses: milk, milky, white, turbid 

Description:

The term 'lecce' was borrowed from Spanish during the middle period and ameans 'milk'. It replaced the term 'ropóet', approximately, 'from the teat', which is no longer used in High Common. The modifier term 'lecce' means 'milky' and can be a metaphorical descriptor for white or turbid things, expecially liquids.

As a calque from English, 'lecce' used as a verb is a skurun transitive word meaning to milk, with an ergative subject that is the milker and an absolutive object that is the thing milked.

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