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The term 'atexa' has the base meaning of island, and is thought to have a pseudohistorical derivation from 'ates', 'single', and 'wekja', land.

As a verb, it is a transitive skurun verb meaning to isolate, shun or ostracise, literally 'to make an island'. It takes an ergative subject that is the agent causing the isolation, and an absolutive object, typically a person, who is the one shunned.

Atexa in the sense of 'to isolate' can also be used in the sense of setting something aside and separating it from other contacts. This more clinical sense was attested in Old Common - the more hostile sense of casting a person out is attested right to the early period, however.

In the sense of 'be isolated' as a description as opposed to an act committed against a person, the modifier form atexas is used instead, often with a copula expression.