fex
Keywords: food, chemistry
Pronunciation (IPA): | feʃ |
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Part of Speech: | term noun verb |
Class: | skurun |
Forms: | fex, fexysyn, fexys |
Glosses: | salt, salty, saltiness |
Description:
The term 'fex' means salt. In colloquial speech it is much like in English, referring to sodium chloride or 'table salt', or salt as in salt water in the ocean. It has also been adopted in the technical language of chemistry as the general word for a salt.
Noun:
As a noun, 'fex' refers to salt. The derived term 'fexysyn' means 'saltiness'.
Verb:
As a verb, 'fex' is a transitive skurun verb meaning to add salt to something, with an ergative salter and an absolutive thing salted.
Modifier:
As a modifier, 'fexys' means 'salty'.