tylla
Keywords: shapes
Pronunciation (IPA): | 'təl.la |
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Part of Speech: | term noun verb |
Class: | pali |
Forms: | tylla, tyllaka |
Glosses: | coil, spring, feces, intestines |
Description:
The term 'tylla' refers to coiled objects. Its base meaning is 'coil', and it can be extended to spring, or to feces form the image of coiled feces, in which case it is used as a euphemism.
As a noun, 'tylla' means any coiled object, and may extend to springs, or to feces, as meantioned above. The derived form 'tyllaka', 'that which is coiling', is the word for 'intestines'.
As a verb, tylla is an intransitive pali verb meaning to coil up or form into coil which takes an absolutive subject that is the thing coiling. To get the sens of an agent causing something else to coil, a causative skurun form should be used.