Description:

The term 'wekja' refers to land in general, or an identifiable land, country or territory. The Old Common language was intended for a society that was not particularly territorial, so did not have a lot of fine distinctions in this area. The NWO does not strongly emphasize the existence or even validity of anything like a sovereign territory, although it does have fine distinctions for its own political units, and technical terms used to study history. Therefore, there has not been a large impetus to introduce such distinctions into everyday High Common.

In the middle period, a shortened form -wek was used to derive an affix to name countries and territories based on some identifiable characteristic determined by the root.

As a verb, 'wekja' means 'to make landfall'. It is more often used for boats than aircraft - the preferred term for aircraft is 'jenun' from 'jenu', 'onto'. It is still sometimes used for aircraft. It is a transitive skurun verb, with an ergative agent performing the landing and an absolutive thing made to make landfall. More information about the speciifc place landfall was made can be added as a dative indirect object in a happat benefactive form.

'Wekja' always has an implied agency as a verb. You can omit the ergative subject, but it is implicitly present in skurun or happat forms. You can use an antipassive and have the thing landed as the absolutive subject, which still has a tone of reflexive agency.

'Wekja' is little used as a modifier, but can be used as an adverb leaning, 'landward' or 'towards land'. 'Wekjas' can also have the pejorative sense of 'country' as in homemade, folk, rural or backwards. For example, the Common expression 'naz wekjas zisse', or 'country languages', usually translated as 'folk languages', is how Common pseakers refer to languages other than Common (except in an elite education context, in which hase they would be 'naz hitalys zisse', 'the old languages'.