Common Lexeme

arkitek

Keywords: architecture

Pronunciation (IPA): 'ar.gi.dek 
Part of Speech: term noun verb 
Class: skurun 
Forms: arkitek, arkitekys, arkitekysyn 
Glosses: architect, artistically plan 

Description:

The term 'arkitek' is loanword from English, ultimately from Greek and means an architect, a person who plans the design of buildings, particularly from an artistic perspective.

Noun:

As a noun, 'arkitek' refers to a person who plans the design of buildings. It is the base form and is used to derive 'arkitekysyn', or architecture.

Verb:

'Arkitek' is not very commonly used as a verb, but when it is, it has more of the sense of 'act like an archtect', rather than the 'be-X' sense of many verbs derived from words for people. It is a transitive skurun verb taking an ergative architect or planner and an absolutive thing planned, and it is used metaphorically to plan something out in a complex and artful way.

Modifier:

The modifier form 'arkitekys' means 'pertaining to architecture, architectual', despite being derived from the word for the practitioner, and it is also used in a mostly complimentary sense to describe something as well planned out, or complex in an artistic sense.

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