Description:

The term 'kyrak' pertains to discourse or argument in the sense of making a reasoned case for a position. Any heat that comes from the act of arguing is secondary to idea that the exercise is to make a real point or persuade someone of a position.

'Kyrak' is related to the word 'karak', or 'fist'. It was invented by members of the fan community during the early period and made its way into the original screenshow when Davidson adopted it as 'canon', or an official part of the story universe. It was created by taking the term karak, a work in the concrete gender, and raising the stressed vowel to make an abstract form.

Noun:

In modern High Common, the term 'kyrak' as a noun means an argument, as in, a logical case for something. It can also be a word for the entire conversation, although in that case, to disambiguate, 'horos kyrak' (argument together) or 'kyrakysyn' (disputation, rhetoric) might be used.

The derived form 'kyrakka' is used to mean a case or putative circumstance, or thing postulated. It is a word for grammatical case.

Verb:

As a verb, 'kyrak' is a ditransitive happat verb of giving meaning to make an argument. It takes an ergative subject who is making the argument, an absolutive argument which is the argument that is made (often set up as a dependent clause introduced with si) and a dative indirect object, who is the audience to whom the argument is made.

Kyrak also has a common disintentive skurun form using 'te' where the dative audience is removed. In this form, there may be two or more ergative subject nouns joined by epis. In this form, the subjects are engaged in the argument and the absolutive object is the topic they are arguing about.

Modifier:

As a modifer, 'kyrakys' means 'disputatious', but in a positive sense of a love of intellectual argument. It can also mean, 'rhetorical'.