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✨ Actions & Verbs
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17 words for the things we do.
| LEKA | Meaning | Story |
|---|---|---|
| tira | to teach | An old LEKA root, present from the earliest drafts. The act of pulling knowledge across — Italian tirare (to pull) is in the bones of the word. |
| tiran | learning | LEKA-internal: derived from tira. The thing that happens when teaching lands. Predates the formal suffix system. |
| mira | to see | Spanish mirar (to look, to behold). Also a noun (sight) — see Body. The same word that gives us mira-mu (wonder). |
| nani | to feel / sense | Japanese nani literally means "what" — sensing as inquiry. The body asking the world a question. |
| toka | to touch | Japanese toka + Spanish tocar (to touch). The meeting of surfaces. |
| kuru | to come | Japanese kuru — short, fluid, exactly what coming should sound like. |
| iku | to go | Japanese iku — the natural counterpart to kuru. Together they map every direction. |
| kara | to give / make | Sanskrit kara (the hand, the doer, the maker). The hand-word becomes the action-word. Note: this is a different root from the family name kara we avoided when naming "beloved." |
| prena | to take / receive | Sanskrit prāṇa (life-breath) + Italian prendere (to take). Receiving as taking in breath — every taking is a kind of breathing. |
| mana-ru | to eat / nourish | LEKA-internal: mana (food/nourishment) + -ru (verb-maker). Literally "to do food." The verb that birthed the productive -ru suffix. |
| akua-ru | to drink | LEKA-internal: akua (water) + -ru. Built the same way as mana-ru. |
| kana-ru | to sing / make music | LEKA-internal: kana (music) + -ru. Music is a thing you do, not just a thing that happens. |
| parla | to speak | Italian parlare, French parler. The Romance speech-word — what comes out when we form words. |
| kiku | to listen | Japanese kiku — the perfect listening word, short and attentive. |
| ama | to love | Italian and Spanish amar, Latin amare. The deep Romance love-verb, trimmed to its core. |
| tormi | to sleep | Italian dormire, French dormir, with the d→t shift from v0.4. Sleep softened into something quieter. |
| sveya | to wake | Italian sveglia (alarm, to wake). The word that pulls us up out of tormi. |
How This Category Shapes the Language
- The -ru suffix was born here — it lets any noun become a verb. Music becomes singing, water becomes drinking. The community can coin endlessly: kana-ru, akua-ru, mana-ru, and anything else they need.
- LEKA does not conjugate verbs. Me ama tu is "I love you." Me ta ama tu is "I loved you." Tense is in the particle, not the word.
- Words like mira (see), nani (feel), toka (touch) are both nouns and verbs — see Body. The body and what it does are one word.
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