Common Lexeme

real

Keywords: language, mathematics

Pronunciation (IPA): 're.al 
Part of Speech: term noun verb 
Class: pali 
Forms: real, realys, realysyn, ikréal, ikréalys, ikréalysyn 
Glosses: real, reality, spacetime, realis, irreal, irrealis, unreal, imaginary 

Description:

The term 'real' was borrowed from English and other languages during the early modern period time of directed expansion of the Common language, initially for technical vocabulary, where it was used in physics, maths and linguistics. Today is has reach beyond technical disciplines as a normal vocablary word for everyday speakers. It was borrowed into Common as a word meaning 'reality'or 'spacetime', in other words, as a term.

Noun:

As a noun, 'real' means physical reality. 'Na real' is a way of saying 'the real world'. The derived form 'ikréal' means the unreal or the imaginary as a generality, and is sometimes used in modern Buddhist writings along with 'sih' to talk about dukkha. The word 'real' has a lot of overlap with 'zran', and the word 'ikréal' has a lot of overlap with 'sih'.

The derived forms 'realysyn' and íkréalysyn' are used as short forms to descrive the realis and irrealis moods respectively in linguistics, which fully written out use the word 'puesyn', 'mood', as in 'na realys puesyn', the realis mood. They can also be used in a similar way to talk about real and imaginary numbers in mathematics, where the head term is normall 'tret'.

In physics, the word 'real' is used to mean 'spacetime'.

Verb:

As a verb, 'real' and íkréal' are simply intransitive pali verbs that assert that their absolutive subjects are, respectively, real or imaginary. For example:

Az junikorny se ikréal.
Unicorns are imaginary.

Modifier:

The modifier forms 'realys' and 'ikréalys' can have the common reaning of real and unreal, and are also used in linguistics terminology to express the realis and irrealis moods (puesyn) respectively, or real and imaginary numbers (tret) respectively in maths.

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