Description:

The term 'xof' is an Old Common word that means at its base, a set or kit of things or people united by some kind of purpose. It is close to the word 'hilin', 'system', but unlike hilin does not imply dynamism or a system in motion but rather an assembly of parts. An example would be the distinction betwee, 'ny car xof', 'a bone set', a skeleton just lying around (as opposed to a pile of disconnected bones, or a skeleton in a living animal) versus 'na car hilin', 'the bone system', as a biologist might talk about the bones in a loiving animal.

Noun:

As a noun, 'xof' is a kit, set or assembly. It can mean a set of pieces that belong together, like a chess set, a mathemtical set, a kit of making something like a piece of furniture, or an assembly of people who have come together for a specific purpose, like a legislature, or a shift at a factory.

The derived form 'xofka' is closely related to 'xof' itself, but implies something which has been assembled as opposed to an assembly that simply exists, and might actually be used to refer to a sub-assembly in a set of instructions.

In linguistics, 'xof' has a special use as a word for grammatical configuration of words which expresses up to one complete thought, often but not always containing a clear subject and predicate. This could be a 'sentence' or a 'statement' or a 'phrase'. This contrasts with 'wasko', which is used to refer to complete, grammatical single statements in lunguistics, or whole stories. See attached article on proper and defective statements.

Verb:

As a verb, 'xof' is a transitive skurun verb meaning to assemble or put together, with an ergative assembler and an absolutive thing assembled (typically referring to the parts but maybe to the whole). E.g.:

Ja pexiruca tene xof az car.
The scientist has assembled the bones [into a skeleton].

If the things assembled are capable of self-assembly, a pali antipassive form might be used:

Jaz Wiste se xof.
The Representatives are assembling [in the legislature]

Xof can also have the sense of taking a set of parts and putting them together in their required configuration, such as assembling a puzzle, or furniture from a kit.

The derived forms uxóf and exóf come into play here. Uxóf emphasises the meaning of putting something together into a functional unit. Exóf actually has the sense of taking something down from a functional unit to a compact assembly. Both are optional and used for clarity or rhetorical effect, and both follow the same verbal paradigm as xof itself. These usages have arisen more since the middle and early modern peiods.

Modifier:

The derived form 'xofys' has the sense of 'assembled', or 'put together'. The further derived form 'roxófys' is used to emphasise the idea of a set of things fully assembled into a functional unit. Éxofys might be used for the sense of 'put away'.