'ekxinum clarified by Tsm. Pawl

[Toruk Makto]

Paul, in an email to me on clarifying definition of 'ekxinum:

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The trouble here is with English. Let's look at a parallel example:

somwew

Now as you know, som is hot, wew is cold. So somwew literally means hot-cold. So when we say somwewpe, we're asking, "What's the hot-cold?" In other words, what's the degree of hotness or coldness? Of course English has a nice word for that: temperature. So that's the idiomatic translation for somwew.

'Ekxinum is exactly parallel. 'Ekxin is tight, um is loose. So 'ekxinum literally means tight-loose. When we say 'ekxinumpe, we're asking, "What's the tight-loose?" In other words, what's the degree of tightness or looseness? Trouble is, English doesn't have a nice word for that which would correspond to temperature. (At least I can't think of one.)

In any event, I guess a clearer translation of 'ekxinum would be "degree of tightness or looseness." In other words, where is it on the tight-loose scale?
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Adjusting in the dictionary accordingly.

ta Markì

[Blue Elf]

Well, there is more words created this way (ngimpup, tsawlhì'....). But 'ekxinum is probably the first one which does not have exact English counterpart.
Anyway, thanks for asking for comment.

[Toruk Makto]

Also last night, Paul legalized ikranay (since we have -nay now) and asked the ASG word lonataya (medusa) be removed. He also posted the next Naviteri entry as we see. 

[Blue Elf]

So lonataya is now wrong? Wiya, I used it in my story. Fortunately, we still have fpxafaw

[Irtaviš Ačankif]

So lonataya is now wrong? Wiya, I used it in my story. Fortunately, we still have fpxafaw

Probably the existence of fpxafaw is a main reason why *lonataya was removed...

[Tirea Aean]

So lonataya is now wrong? Wiya, I used it in my story. Fortunately, we still have fpxafaw

Probably the existence of fpxafaw is a main reason why *lonataya was removed...

What explains why pxel and na coexist? *shrug*

[Ftiafpi]

When we say 'ekxinumpe, we're asking, "What's the tight-loose?" In other words, what's the degree of tightness or looseness? Trouble is, English doesn't have a nice word for that which would correspond to temperature. (At least I can't think of one.)

Way late on this but I figured this was a good place to post this. Engineering has a useful term for the word that you're looking for: "clearance". We can likely directly translate 'ekxinum very nicely as "clearance" in English.

[Toruk Makto]

Hmmm. Good one. You should bounce that off tsm. Pawl.

[Ftiafpi]

Hmmm. Good one. You should bounce that off tsm. Pawl.

Done. Will post back when I know more.