Common Lexeme

eos

Keywords: astronomy, science

Pronunciation (IPA): 'e.os 
Part of Speech: modifier 
Class: adjective, adverb, skurun 
Forms: eos, eosyn 
Glosses: bright, brightly, light, shine 

Description:

The modifier 'eos' has a base meaning of 'bright', with the most stereotypcal sense meaning 'emiting light'. You could say something like a colour is 'eos', but that is engaging in some hyperbole.

Derived as the term 'eosyn', it is the general word for 'light', meaning light in general or a light, and is also a transitive skurun verb for to light something up or shine a light on something, with an ergative light source or agent shining light, and an absolutive focus of the light or space lit. If the light source itself isn't the subject, it can be indicated with a prepositional phrase introduced with 'ceo'.

The sense of a light or a bright thing can be conveyed with 'eosynca' if needed to disambiguate.

Eos has an apparent relationship to the words 'eon', 'sun' and 'sinéon', 'star' - all are original Old Common words.

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