fure
Keywords: weather
Pronunciation (IPA): | 'fu.re |
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Part of Speech: | term noun verb |
Class: | zresu |
Forms: | fure, fures, furesyn, zra fure, was fure, wero fure, rofúre, xafúre, letka fure |
Glosses: | wind, windy, blow, be windy, breath, breathe, air, ghost, spirit, soul, spiritual, spirituality, sacred, rumour, fart, inhale, exhale |
Description:
The term 'fure' has a base meaning of 'wind'. As a noun, it is the atmospheric wind, and may be extended to any flowing gas. It also means air in general As a verb, is it is the weather term for wind blowing, with other metaphorical extension.
Noun:
As a nouns, 'fure' means air, wind, breath, or moving air. It is also used as a word for 'spirit' or 'soul', a deliberately euphemistic reference.that is useful in talking about religion discreetly in the mot-very-tolerant NWO. The spiritual sense can be emphasized by compounding with 'zra', 'true or good', as in 'zra fure'. 'Fures' can mean spiritual or sacred, and 'furesyn' can refer to spirituality.
The set phrase 'ny letka fure' refers to a ghost or spirit of the departed, literally 'death-experiencer wind'.
'Fure' is also on the other end (literally) an idiom for frat or pass gas.This meaning can be disambiguated by compounding 'was', 'false, bad', to make 'wasfure'.
Another idiomatic meaning of fure is 'rumour'.
Modifier:
Derived as the modifier 'fures', it means 'windy' and can take tight binding modifier to express degree.
Verb:
'Fure' is an avalent zresu verb that takes the auxiliary 'zres' and no thematic arguments and means to be windy. Because avalent verbs cannot undergo valence changes, the sense of something blowing or making the air move cannot be expressed directly with fure. A periphrastic causative could be used with the prepostition rowéro introducing the causer, or a causative contruction with the verb wero could be used.
It is also possible to use the intensified form of fure, 'rofúre'. Rofúre is a transitive skurun verb that takes an ergative blower and an absolutive thing blown on. Rofúre is commonly employed as an antipassive to talk about things that generate air currents without focusing on what those currents act on.
Derived as xafúre, using the prefix xa- to mean 'repeatedly', it means 'to breathe'. Xafúre is an intransitive pali verb and takes an absolutive subject that is the breather. A thing breathed can be added with the null preposition. The sense of 'inhale' can be specified by adding the modifier 'fit', and the sense of 'exhale' can be specified by adding the modifier 'lat'. This verb has an unusual valence shift, placing it in the semitransitive creates the sense of breathing on purpose rather than involuntarily, and the thing breathed gets promoted to a core argument in the dative case.
Beware of using wero as a modifying term, however. Wero fure means 'to pass gas', or 'to fart'. It is a somewhat polite and euphemistic was of saying it. This form acts like a compound term and takes intransitive pali agreement with an absolutive farter.
We sete wero fure.
I passed wind.
The negative term wasfure can also be used directly as a verb meaning to fart and also is a pali verb with an absolutive farter. This form is considered blunt and funny or rude.
Zu sete wasfure
You farted.