Description:

The term 'resa' pertains to the human or animal ears or microphones and to hearing.

Noun:

As a noun, resa means a human or animal ear, or to a microphone. It is a general word for any organ or object capable of hearing.

The derived form 'resaka', 'hearer', is the Common word for a digital assistant, a device placed in a home or office which listens to everything in the room and responds to voice commands by responding with a synthesized voice or placing a response on a nearby screen or taw.

Verb:

As a verb, 'resa' is the main verb for hearing. In contrast with the verb 'wokky', 'listen', which has to do with intentionally trying to hear something or paying attention to the content of what you hear, 'resa' has to do with hearing something without intention to hear it.

Resa is an unusual verb by English standards, and requires some care to use correctly. It is a transitive skurun verb. It takes an ergative subject that is the sound heard, and an absolutive object that is the hearer. Because the hearer is often the toptic and Common tends to front topics, OSV or OVS word order is common in sentences with resa. It may help to think of 'resa' as a verb meaning 'to be heard by' rather than as a verb meaning to hear.

Modifier:

As a modifier 'resas', it means 'audible' or 'audibly'.