Proposal: wong "be/get used to"

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[Anonymous LEP Submission]

Suggestion: wong (adj.)
Meaning: familiar, known
Explanation: this comes, as you all may recognise, from one of the very first words we ever encountered: kewong / ketuwong. They have always been translated as "alien"; I understood them more in the sense of "unfamiliar, unknown, foreign, strange" than the 'alien' (extra-terrestrial/-pandorian) form
So, here's the proposal as to what the element wong could mean.

To say, "I am used to something", we use the ADJ + lu DAT construct as in nga yawne/lom lu oer

Example: latem a yafkeyk a mì na'rìng Eywa'evengä wong lu oer.
Meaning: I am used to the changing weather in the forests of Pandora.

To say, "to get used to something", we use a form of sleyku as in the forms A-ìl B-it sleyku nitram etc.

Example: hek a lì'upamìl Toktor Kìreysä ayevengit sleykolu wong.
Meaning: The (Na'vi) children became used to Doctor Grace's strange pronunciation

Example 2: atxkxel sleykivu wong
Meaning: make yourself/-selves familiar with the terrain


In the same vain, the expression sleyku kewong (maybe even with double negation??) would mean "to become estranged"

Example: peyä tsakemìl oeti sleyku kewong. fwäkì ke fwefwi.
Meaning: His action made him a total stranger to me / I couldn't understand his action. It was so unlike him.

Derivations:
ketuwong would thus get the additional meaning "stranger, unfamiliar person"

[Anonymous LEP Submission]

smon?

[Anonymous LEP Submission]

I thought of this myself but I think it is different

[Anonymous LEP Submission]

I thought of this myself but I think it is different

I fundamentally like this as proposed (a LOT) with two suggested changes.

It has come up from others that this semantic range overlaps with smon. I feel it undeniably does, but I also feel that it *could be* different. I would like it VERY VERY much if it would also skew toward the meaning of "comfortable" in the sense of "I am comfortable with this because it is familiar and reassuring to me due to this familiarity." Again, this is not pure physical comfort as in "the bed is comfortable because of the firmness of the mattress", but rather "I am always most comfortable in my own bed." (I sleep better in it because it is the one that I'm most familiar with.)

So change #1 is skew meaning also towards "emotional comfort."

Change #2 is to add a noun tìwong or säwong (I prefer säwong) that generically means "comfort". It could skew toward the physical sense without needing to express that overtly.

   Mefor lu säwong fìtsap nìtam slä ke sunu (fìtsap) nìpxi.
   They are sufficiently comfortable with each other, but don't especially like each other.

   Mipa tsasäzärìpä säwongri pa’li ’erefatsu ye li.
   The horse already seems comfortable with that new bridle.

   Furia oel makto ikranit, mi säwong längu flì.
   I'm still quite iffy about this riding-a-banshee thing.

   Fìtstalìri, oeyä tsyokxur ke lu säwong.
   This knife does not feel comfortable in my hand.

   Säwong tsar lu a tsengit riveiun ko.
   Let's find a comfortable place.

    or possibly even with one more derived form:

   Fìtsengto lesäwonga tsengot alahe riveiun ko.
   Let's find somewhere else that's more comfortable than here.

[Anonymous LEP Submission]

I thought of this myself but I think it is different

I fundamentally like this as proposed (a LOT) with two suggested changes.

It has come up from others that this semantic range overlaps with smon. I feel it undeniably does, but I also feel that it *could be* different. I would like it VERY VERY much if it would also skew toward the meaning of "comfortable" in the sense of "I am comfortable with this because it is familiar and reassuring to me due to this familiarity." Again, this is not pure physical comfort as in "the bed is comfortable because of the firmness of the mattress", but rather "I am always most comfortable in my own bed." (I sleep better in it because it is the one that I'm most familiar with.)

So change #1 is skew meaning also towards "emotional comfort."

Change #2 is to add a noun tìwong or säwong (I prefer säwong) that generically means "comfort". It could skew toward the physical sense without needing to express that overtly.
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Maybe I just couldn't pinpoint it but that sounds like a good explanation for *wong
Thanks for coming to the rescue

/OP