Common Lexeme

fisa

Keywords: thought, philosophy, derivation

Pronunciation (IPA): 'fi.za 
Part of Speech: term noun verb 
Class: noxaj 
Forms: fisa, -fisa, fisakija, fisakasyn, ikfísa, fisasyn, ufísa, fisas 
Glosses: think, believe, trust, credit, thought, belief, concept, idea, philosophy, doubt, unbelief, skepticism, meditate, meditation, think up, honorable, credible, trustworthy 

Description:

The term 'fisa' is a widely used term for all matters pertaining to thought or belief. Its base meaning as a noun is 'thought' or 'belief'. Its base meaning as a verb is 'believe'. It is widely used as a derivational suffix -fisa to derive words pertaining to ideas and concepts. It also has a few derived forms important enough to flag as searchable forms above.

Fisa is also the base of monetary and financial terminology via its meaning of 'trust'. It is noteworthy how the New World Order merges a term used for faith with its terminology for money.

Verb:

  • Paradigm: noxaj (semitransitive)
  • Auxiliary: nox

In its base form, 'fisa' is a semitransitive verb with an absolutive subject that is the thinker or believer and a dative indirect object which is the thing believed, usually expressed as a dependent clause introduced by ixi. Other senses are explained below. any of these senses can be made causative by increasing the valence, adding an ergative subject that stimulates the thinking or belief.

The derived form ufísa means to think something up or to come up with an idea. The dative indirect object is the thing thought up.

Belief in Someone or Something, Trust

This idiom is expressed with the base form of the verb with a prepositional phrase introduced by the null preposition 'y' in the nominative case as the thing believed in. In this form, the verb can still take a dative object, and the overall sense is belief in someone or sonething (the oblique object with y) that something (the indirect object, usually as a dependent clause introduced by ixi) is true. However, in this idiom it is common to omit the indirect object.

Thinking in General, or About Something

The idea of simply sitting and thinking can be expressed by placing the verb in the disintentive by using intransitive agreement with se, in which canse it has an absolutive thinker. The topic thought about can be expressed using a prepositional phrase introduced with the preposition 're'.

Meditation

The derived, abstractified form 'fisasyn' is used as a word for 'to meditate'. It is always an in transitive pali verb, and a topic of meditiation can be added by introducing an adverbial phrase introduced with the null preposition.

Noun:

As a noun, 'fisa' means thought or belief. There are a couple of important idomatic derivations to highlight:

  • fisakija ['fi.za.gi.ja]: An idea, "that which is thought or believed"
  • fisakasyn ['fi.za.ga.zən]: Philosophy as a general discipline
  • fisasyn ['fi.za.zən]: Meditation

Derivational Suffix:

As a derivational affix, '-fisa' derives many terms for concepts, philosophies, religions and ideologies. A famous example is 'onpafisa', from 'onpa', 'globe, world' and '-fisa', 'thought', which translates as globalism, the official ideology of the New World Order.

Other Derived Forms:

The derived forms with the negating particle, like 'ikfísa', refer to doubt, skepticism or unbelief.

The modifier form 'fisas' has a sense like worthy of belief or credit, trustworthy, honorable.

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