fenih
Keywords: plants, animals, biology
| Pronunciation (IPA): | 'fe.niƧ |
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| Part of Speech: | term noun verb |
| Class: | skurun |
| Forms: | fenih |
| Glosses: | sperm, seed, spore, cell culture, ejaculate, plant seeds, impregnate |
Description:
The term 'fenih' refers to a seed, or to sperm, the cel, or ejaculate. It is aloso the everyday term in the technical field of microbial fermentation for a cell culture used to grow a batch of an organism.
Noun:
As a noun, 'fenih' can mean a seed like a plant's seed, a spore, an animal sperm cell (male gamete), or ejaculate containing sperm. This imagery of male gametes as equivalent to seeds is inaccurate and represents a primitive understanding of the world, but Davidson nevertheless built this directly into Old Common and it comes down to us in the present day.
Verb:
As a verb, 'fenih' is a transitive skurun verb that means to plant seeds or to impregnate that takes an ergative planter or male animal or person and an absolutive field, pot, growing chamber or fermentor, female person or animal, etc.