layo-lu

Europic

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Pronunciation

• Europic Phonology: /la.jo.lu/

Etymology

From layo ‘because of this’ + -lu ‘-ness’.

Noun

layo-lu

1. (grammar) tense, conjugation, inflection (of a verb)

   Layo-lu refers to ‘tense’ in the broad sense of verbal inflections, such as the past, the imperative, the pluperfect, or the future anterior. The strict sense of ‘tense’, referring specifically to time, is lano-lu.

Hyponyms

• lano-lu ‘tense’
• laca-lu ‘mood’