Common Lexeme

slup

Keywords: clothing, fabric

Pronunciation (IPA): slup 
Part of Speech: term noun verb 
Class: skurun 
Forms: slup, sluppaj 
Glosses: cloth, piece of cloth, upholster, fabric, scrub 

Description:

The term 'slup' refers to cloth.

Noun:

As a noun, 'slup' means cloth as a substance, or a piece of cloth. The sense of the substance of cloth and not a unit of it can be expressed using the derived form 'sluppaj' if needed to disambiguate.

Verb:

As a verb, 'slup' is a transitive skurun verb. It mostly means to scrub, but can be used to mean something like to upholster. In either case it takes an ergative subject that is the one performing the work and an absolutive object which is the thing worked on.

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