Common Lexeme

faret

Keywords: discourse

Pronunciation (IPA): 'fa.ret 
Part of Speech: term noun verb 
Class: noxaj 
Forms: faret, faretys, faretkija 
Glosses: doubt, suspicion, suspect, skeptical, skepticism 

Description:

The term 'faret' shares some space with 'ikfísi', disbelief, but faret is more focused on direct suspicion that something may be true than belief that something is not true.

Noun:

As a noun, 'faret' refers to general suspicion, skepticism or disbelief.

The derived form faretkija is a word for a criminal suspect, or one under suspicion.

Verb:

The verb form is a noxaj semitransitive verb that takes an absolutive one who disbelieves and a dative person or claim disbelieved (the later generally a dependent clause introduced by ixi, or else a noun phrase that easily sums up the belief). Common frames doubt, therefore, as a journey or a desire.

Another usage of faret is to suspect as in to suspect of a crime or bad act, or to put it another way, to disbelieve a person's innocence. The suspected one is the dative object.

Modifier:

As a modifier, feratys means 'suspicious' - it could have two possible frames. It could be applied to a person to say that their behavior causes negative suspicions, or to a person who is becoming skeptical of someone or something else.

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