Early Hick Lexicon — Abstract Concepts
Entries in the Abstract Concepts semantic field.
- 'imur /ʔi.mur/
- evil force (noun) [Sacred Terms, Abstract Concepts]
- Proto-Hick *hi-muru
- Shows archaic animacy marking through glottal prefix
- 'it /ʔit/
- knot (in wood) (noun) — Specifically refers to natural knots in wood/lumber [Construction Terms, Natural Features]
- falsehood (noun) — Metaphorical extension from deviation in wood grain [Abstract Concepts]
- Proto-Hick *xitu
- etilsim /e.til.sim/
- everything changes/transforms (with implications of resignation/indifference) (adverb) — Often used as resigned response to change or loss [Abstract Concepts, Philosophical Terms]
- Shows lexicalization of translative case into expression of both transformation and resignation
- his /his/
- sight (animate/conscious perception) (noun, verb) [Perception, Sacred, Abstract Concepts]
- to see (passive/unintentional perception) (noun, verb) [Perception Terms, Basic Terms]
- Proto-Hick *hi-lisu
- im /im/
- evil, abstract negativity (noun) — Used for abstract concepts of evil/negativity [Sacred, Negation, Abstract Concepts]
- Proto-Hick *ʔimru
- im'ir /im.ʔir/
- ill intent, malice (noun) [Sacred Terms, Abstract Concepts]
- Shows metaphorical extension of negative prefix with action root
- imurud /i.mu.rud/
- falsehood (noun) [Sacred Terms, Abstract Concepts]
- Shows semantic extension from physical to abstract meaning
- sibris /si.bris/
- love (noun) [Abstract Concepts, Emotional Terms, Sacred Terms]
- Proto-Hick *hibrisu
- Metaphorical extension from 'fire' to 'passion/love'
- sinas /si.nas/
- drift, passage (noun) [Motion Terms, Maritime Terms, Abstract Concepts]
- Proto-Hick *senu-asa-u
- Literally 'floating through', shows typical compound reduction
- thil /θil/
- virtue, moral (noun) [Abstract Concepts, Sacred Terms, Moral Terms]
- Proto-Hick *halu
- Abstract sense developed from basic meaning
- thimer /θi.mer/
- spiritual nurturing; penitence (noun) — Used in ritual contexts [Sacred Terms, Abstract Concepts]
- Proto-Hick *ha-meru
- Sacred extension of the nurturing sense also preserved in mer 'bird; parent'.
- thral /θral/
- daylight, daytime (noun) [Time Terms, Natural Terms]
- calendar day, appointed day (noun) [Time Terms]
- sacred light, revelation (noun) — Poetic and religious sense extending daylight into sacred illumination; productive in revelatory derivations. [Sacred Terms, Light Terms, Abstract Concepts]
- sacred, ritual (noun) — Archaic or literary as a bare word; in ordinary usage chiefly retained as a productive derivational and compound element for sacred or ritually marked concepts. [Sacred Terms, Ritual Terms]
- sun deity (noun) — Archaic or theological; displaced in ordinary reference to the sun by thrakel. [Sacred Terms, Religious Terms]
- Proto-Hick *harala
- Developed from daylight and appointed day senses into sacred or ritually marked use; contrasts with brises 'firelight, illumination'.
- thralas /θra.las/
- divine revelation, sacred illumination (noun) — Poetic and religious; later lexicalized from ritual phrases where truth or insight is said to enter sacred light [Sacred Terms, Light Terms, Abstract Concepts, Case System]
- Ossified from ritual and maximic use of transparent thrallas 'into sacred light'; the lexicalized form simplifies the boundary and denotes divine revelation.
- thranal /θra.nal/
- eternity, endless time (noun) — Poetic or religious term [Time Terms, Sacred Terms, Abstract Concepts]
- great cycle, age (noun) — Used for large calendrical or omen cycles [Time Terms, Calendar Terms]
- Literally 'countless days'; distinct from ordinary seasonal terms.