pxỏmă (01_Asaxi Nouns (List))
pxỏmă
Phonetic Profile
IPA: /pɦou̯maɪ/
Lexical Classification
Category: Noun Noun Class: Warm (Animate/Energy-exerting)
Meanings & Translations
English: the sum of one’s toil, the total effort exerted, cumulative exertion, life’s work (in terms of energy spent) Polish: suma wykonanego wysiłku, ogół trudu, dorobek energetyczny, “wszystkie oddechy”
Definition
A collective noun representing the sum total of physical or spiritual exertion a person has expended. Based on the concept that breathing (pxỏpxỏ) is the fundamental unit of effort and life-force exertion, pxỏmă (“every breath”) metaphorically quantifies the cost of living or achieving. It is classified as Warm because it represents active energy and the vitality required to struggle or build.
Semantic Field
Etymology
A compound derived from the noun pxỏpxỏ (verb) (breathing; reduced to pxỏ in compounding) + the quantifier mă (Particle) (every, all).
Examples
- Ă wo izovivi sỏxèjå sèni ni pxỏmă sỏsùkixů. I tried with utmost effort, and so I loved the sum of toil