stok
Keywords: travel
| Pronunciation (IPA): | stok |
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| Part of Speech: | term noun verb |
| Class: | noxaj |
| Forms: | stok, zra stok |
| Glosses: | journey, voyage, trip, travel, goodbye, farewell |
Description:
The term 'stok' refers to long-distance journeys.
Noun:
As a noun, 'stok' refers to a trip, voyage or journey in a general sense - it can mean the time spent on the activity of travelling itself, or the time spent away from home as a whole if the trip is a temporary excursion.
Verb:
As a verb, stok is a typical noxaj verb of motion. It takes an absolutive subject which is the traveller, and a dative indirect object which is the destination. It is used to refer to long-distance travel, but otherwise is a normal member of the class.
Interjection:
Stok appears as part of the set phrase 'zra stok', which is used as-is without a determiner and mean 'goodbye' or 'farewell'/ It was specifically what you say to someone going on a journey or if you expect a long separation.