pawt
Keywords: core
Pronunciation (IPA): | pawt |
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Part of Speech: | modifier |
Class: | |
Forms: | pawt, pawno |
Glosses: | much, many, a lot, pretty, quite |
Description:
The modifier 'pawt' means much, many or a lot. It functions as an adjective or adverb. It has a special tight binding form 'pawno'. the original Old Common form was the regular 'pawtno', but it changed to 'pawno' sometime in the middle period and was codified with that form.
Pawt contrasts with 'fajn', 'few', and tends to emphasize the plural.
Metaphorically, rather than a literal quantity, it can have the sense of pretty or quite (but in a tight binding sense of modifying another modifier, faj it more likely to be chosen thab pawno)