cual
Keywords: derivation, suffixes, word building, compound words, lifecycle
Pronunciation (IPA): | 't͡ʃu.al |
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Part of Speech: | term verb noun |
Class: | skurun |
Forms: | cual, cualka, cualca, cualys, cualcas, -cual |
Glosses: | bear, carry, burden, bearer, carrier, carried, borne, laden, load, pregnant, pregnancy, bring |
Description:
The term 'cual' has the primary meaning as a verb meaning to bear or carry, or bring. It also has a derivational affix form to derive bearers or conduits for things as -cual. As a verb it is a transitive skurun verb taking an ergative carrier and an absolutive thing carried.
It can take a benefactive happat form where a dative destination or beneficiary is required - the preposition 'u' may introduce the dative indirect object if it is a destination, and 'upána' if it is a beneficiary, to disambiguate if needed.
Cual is used as an idiom for pregnancy. 'Cualca' is one who is pregnant, 'cualcan' is pregnancy, and 'cualys' is modifier meaning 'pregnant'.
The modifer form 'cualys' means laden or burdened. The term 'cualka', 'that which is borne', can be used as a word for 'load', as in a load in a truck.
'Cual' alone as a noun speaks to the concept of burden in general, and can be used as another word meaning a burden.