icók
Keywords: prepositions, modifiers, adjectives, adverbs, relative clauses, dependent clauses
| Pronunciation (IPA): | i'd͡ʒok |
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| Part of Speech: | modifier |
| Class: | preposition, pali |
| Forms: | icók, icókyn |
| Glosses: | without, absent, absence, void, vacuum, nothingness |
Description:
The modifier 'icók' requires arguments in the nominative case, which can be a phrase introduced with 'sin', and asserts their absense relative to its referent. It can function as an adjective or adverb.
The term form 'icókyn' as a verb is an intransitive pali verb meaning 'to be absent', which takes an absolutive subject which is the thing that is absent. It can take an optional additional perphrastic argument in the nominative case introduced with the preposition 'e' which is the thing absent from. Examples:
A Toni sy se icókyn.
Tony is absent.
A Toni sy se icókyn e na horo.
Tony is absent from the party.
As a noun, it can mean a simple absense of something or in a more abstract context means a void, vacuum or nothingness.