xăcènă (03_Asaxi Adjectives (List))
xăcènă
xăcènă
Warm/Cold
class:
- warm animate?
- yes other class equivalent:
Pronunciation
IPA: /ɦaɪt̻͡s̪ənaɪ/
Pitch Accent
- Morae: xă · cè · nă
- Pattern:
H · L · L - Class:
lexical
Semantic Field
Smntc_Field Existence / Smntc_Field Virtues & Failings
Translations
As an adjective:
- English: Real, genuinely alive, authentic (of beings)
- Polish: prawdziwy (o istocie), żywy naprawdę
As an adverb*:
- English:
- Polish:
Example sentence:
Example 1
- Asaxi: ŕa mëŕo — xăcènă mëŕo — pù sè xő fù zèŕoxo.
- English: And a tear, a real tear, trickled down his nose.
- Polish: x
Alternative Forms
x
Etymology
From xăcèshá (Warm) with class-suffix drop (47_Morphological Reduction (Class Suffixes)) — hence Warm -nă. Contrast the regular Cold derivation xăcènýj (< xăcèno) “true, factual (of statements)”: Real-ness is warmth, truth is cold fact.
Synonyms
x
Root Noun
- xăcèshá (a Real one, genuine creature, truly-alive being)
Antonyms
Null
Usage Note
First attested in onă gaksamipỏpỏ (The Velveteen Rabbit).