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Early Hick Lexicon — Conflict Terms

Entries in the Conflict Terms semantic field.

harabran /ha.ra.bran/
conflict, grievance (especially between families/clans) (noun) [Social Terms, Conflict Terms]
Shows cultural conceptualization of conflict as family/clan division
imwes /im.wes/
invade, encroach upon (verb) [Action Terms, Conflict Terms]
Shows productive use of im in its older moral sense of evil, harmful, or improper action, not the newer western privative prefix.
takimris /ta.kim.ris/
to attack, to oppose (verb) [Action Terms, Conflict Terms]
Shows development of aggressive meaning through ellative case