kit
Keywords: core
| Pronunciation (IPA): | kit |
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| Part of Speech: | term noun verb |
| Class: | skurun |
| Forms: | kit, -kit, kitys |
| Glosses: | part, partition, divide, split, partitioned, divided, share |
Description:
The term 'kit' means a part of a whole.
Noun:
As a noun, 'kit' can be a part intended to function as part of a whole, or a portion divided from a whole - anything from a machine part to a slice of pie.
Suffix:
the suffice form '-kit' derives words that represent a part of a whole.
Verb:
As a verb, 'kit' is a transitive skurun verb meaning to divide something into parts, with an ergative subject that is the divider and an absoilutive object which is the thing divided.
If used with a fraction, 'kit' means to divide into that many parts. For example:
Ja pocuk tene ate jo akin kit a osek.
The child has divided the fruit in quarters.
There is also the possible alternative reading that the action was only quarter completed as opposed to splitting in quarters. This usage tends to imply equal parts - there is an alternative idiom which carries less of this implication of equality where the number of parts is expressed with the preposition 'u' with a number derived as a term as its object, and is definitely complete
Ja pocuk tene kit u na akinyn a osek.
The child split the fruit in four.
Another subtle variation on this is using the number as an adverb:
Ja pocuk tene akin kit a osek.
The child split the fruit four times.
This version can also have the sense of four discrete actions rather than four discrete parts and carries the least implication of complete parts.
The antipassive pali form has the sense of 'be divided' with the implication that it is by the volition of the thing divided when referring to people.
Verb of sharing
A relatively modern development is that 'kit' in its benefactive happat form has idiomatically displaced 'jun' as the preferred verb in Common for sharing as in giving something to someone else while keeping it for yourself as well, like sharing food. This sense is attested as early as the late early period, but took off as 'jun' underwent pejoration due to the association to developed with infectious disease.
Modifier:
The modifier form 'kitys' has the sense of partitioned or divided.