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The term 'axih' refers to sugar and sweetness.

As a noun, 'axih' means literal sucrose, but can also refer to any other sweetener. If you want to be clear you mean real sugar, you would say 'zra axih', sometimes shortened in conversation to 'zr'axih' - in a scientific context the technical word 'sukros' for 'sucrose' might be used.

Axih can also be used in technical contexts, in which case it refers to anything which chemically is a sugar, not just sucrose.

As a verb, 'axih' is a skurun verb meaning to sweeten or to add sugar, where the ergative subject is the one doing the sweetening and the absolutive object is the thing sweetened.

The modifier form 'axis' means 'sweet'. It is an irregular modifier form that arose during the early modern period. 'Axihys' was attested well into the modern period but was eventually replaced by 'axis' even in formal writing. Today the AXZ acknowledges 'axihys' as a valid variant but officially endorses 'axis'.