wetera
Keywords: legal, commercial, religion, spirituality, medicine
Pronunciation (IPA): | 'we.de.ra |
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Part of Speech: | term verb noun |
Class: | skurun |
Forms: | wetera, weteras, rowétera, rowéteras, ikrowéteras |
Glosses: | fill, full, fill up, stuff, fulfill, satisfy, satisfied, fulfillment, satisfaction, comply, compliant, noncompliant, compliance, fully, completely, holy, sacred, unholy, profane, healthy, unhealthy |
Description:
The term 'wetera' has to do with filling and being full. It is extended metaphorically to deal with satisfaction and compliance with the terms of an agreement or mandate.
Verb:
As a verb, wetera is a transitive skurun verb which takes an ergative subject which is the one performing the filling, and an absolutive object which is thing being filled into the vessel. It can also take a periphrastic argument which is the thing being filled into the vessel, introduced with the preposition 'ceo'.
If you add the adverb 'fit', it has a sense like 'stuff', as in to stuff something. The stuffing itself could be referred to as 'na weteras paj'.
The same form extends metaphorically to mean to satisfy.
The derived form 'rowétera', using the intensifying prefix, means to comply with an agreement or mandate. It can also have the literal sense of 'fill up'. The ergative subject is then the one fulfilling the agreement, and the absolutive object is the agreement or mandate. This term is important in the New World ORder legal system to describe adherence to a contract or obeying legal regulations.
Noun:
As a noun, wetera means fulfillment or satisfaction, and as the intensified form rowétera, it means compliance.
Modifier:
As an adjective, wetera means full or satisfied. In the intensified forms, rowétera means compliant and ikrowétera means noncompliant.
As an adverb, wetera means 'fully' or 'completely' or 'satisfactorally'.
'Weteras' is also used as a euphemism to mean sacred or holy, especially when seeking to be discreet about religion, in place of the more explicit 'kiputys'. 'Ikwéteras' can then be extended by this metaphor to mean unholy or profane.
To say that something is full of something, add a second modifier phrase of material introduced with the null preposition. Typically that thing will take a plural number.
Another sense of weteras/ikwéteras is as a synonym for healthy/unhealthy, although this would be a less common word choice than 'slan.'