Common Lexeme

kyf

Keywords: emotion

Pronunciation (IPA): kəf 
Part of Speech: term noun verb 
Class: skurun 
Forms: kyf, kyfys 
Glosses: anger, mad, angry, rage, enrage, irritation, inflammation, inflamed 

Description:

The term 'kyf' as to do with anger and rage. It belonged to the abstract gender in Old Common, where it came from.

Noun:

As a noun, 'kyf' means the emotion of anger or rage, or some specific anger or rage. It can also refer to an injury that is badly irritated or inflamed in colloquial Common.

Verb:

As a verb, 'kyf' is a transitive skurun verb meaning to make someone angry, to anger. It takes an ergative angerer and an absolutive one angered. The antipassive pali form, like many Common antipassives has an idiomatic reflexive sense and means to anger oneself, to get angry or be angry, with the subject of the anger optionally introduced with the proposition 're'. So Common thinks of just being angry as angering yourself.

The verbal sense can also be used to talk about actions that irritate an injury, or for an injury to become inflamed on its own.

Modifier:

The modifier form 'kyfys' can mean angry, enraged or inflamed.

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