| The remainder that yet has to be formalised | |||||||||||||||
| isiZulu | shorthand | temporal to define it? | how part comes about needed? | POS | dictionary item in English | linguist & ontologist notes | Questions resulting from trying to formalise | ||||||||
| -xubene na- | stuffs | may be + or -? | + | V | component | IZ.net: be blended; be compounded; be mixed together; be fused; be mingled, be coalesced | |||||||||
| -yimvithimvithi | part | + | + | in pieces | imvithimvithi. Example: the pieces when the glass shattered. So the act of creating the parts has happened, and this is about a state of affairs | state of affairs of the piece w.r.t. the proken whole? No | pieces broken from a whole: whole no longer recognizable | ||||||||
| amangcozu | involved in | - | - | N pl 5 | sections | (btw, can't exist in the singular?). It is a static part. If you are doing something, you're doing it bit by bit. Subtype of involved in??? A sequence of subactivities that are part of the larger activity. Like the activity of typing a word as part of the activity of typing a sentence. | is it really different from involved-in (relating process to sub-process)? In our INLG16 paper, we lumped involved-in tgether with ingxenye | Always in plural = amanconzu meaning a small part of a big whole or part of an entire process = latest comment often used in repetition of the final stem = amanconzuncozu | |||||||
| ingqikithi | essential and immutable part | + | - | N sg | the essential part…… | indeed as our KR08 understandig of essential parthood and also includes immutable part. | - | ||||||||
| isabelo | regions | may be + or -? | N sg 7 | portion | synonym of isigaba. IZ.net: allocation; grant; portion; quota; share | there are all sorts of different things here. Needs clarification | Isabelo is allocation in the sense of a budget. But isigaba is a section. | ||||||||
| isigamu | scattered portion | + | + | N sg 7? | portion, piece | piece chopped off or cut off, anything cut short, according to the blue dictionary. listed for piece and portion. Merged here. Not in IZ.net | |||||||||
| isihlephu | scattered part | + | - | N sg 7 | piece | piece broken off, but not clear whether that piece will have a function once broken off. IZ.net: fragment; piece; portion | the piece is a self-contained thingie, like, say, the ear of a cup, the seating of a chair? Or could alos be just a chip of the cup (the piece does not have 'identity' as a thing of itself) | The main sense is that isihlephu is a piece that does have an identity (or use) on its own. | |||||||
| isijuqu | part | + | + | N sg 7? | part, piece | also listed in 'part of'. as it's the part that remains, it's not the piece. the remainder that stays behind when tearing something off. Has something to do with size as well. Example ilunga yisijuqu semfe. a bunch of ilunga are the subsections of the stem of the sugar cane (imfe), and the top ilunga gets torn off, and the larger remainder of the cane remains. and therefore isijuqu, not ingxenye. listed twice. Is part, not section | so, the 'torn off part of' was part of the whole? Traditionally, parthood does not consider *how* the parts come about, though. | Yes. A part that remains. | |||||||
| isinqamu | scattered portion | + | + | N sg 7? | portion….. | example if you break a couple of pages from a larger number of pages. It's not ingxenye, because you have removed it. like in breaking bread. So it is a scattered part (portion). was listed 3 times, with portion mianly, merged here. | |||||||||
| isiqinti | moved to part | - | N sg 7 | piece of land | has some inherent locative aspect, more as a part of a place, rather than piece. Let's move to parts list | how does it related to the whole? | It is a piece of land that is a small part of a big whole. | ||||||||
| izingxenye ezakhayo | structural parthoog | - | - | N pl 10 | component parts | with a long list at: https://isizulu.net/?izingxenye+ezakhayo: building parts, constructing parts, producing parts, manufacturing parts, building sections, constructing sections, producing sections, manufacturing sections, building halves, constructing halves, producing halves, manufacturing halves | |||||||||
| qukatha | containment | - | - | V | contain | can be used for both the physical containment (like laptop in bag) and conceptual containment like in 'your story contains lies', a book contains words. IZ.net: contain; hold, comprise; include | |||||||||
| ucezu | part | may be + or -? | maybe +? | N sg 11 | part broken off | IZ.net: bit; fragment; piece, chip; slice | |||||||||
| udengezi | part, with extras | + | - | N sg | piece | shard. piece of the broken vase/clay pot, and that piece assumed another function | no idea how to handle that formally | This is the antonymy of isiqephu. While isiqephu has no identiy/or use, udengezi assumes new identity and use as a result of breaking from a whole. | |||||||
| umhlanganyeli | refined participation? | - | ? | N sg 1 | participant | ? If Ok = used as in those participarting in an act of assault = -hlanganyela 'to come together to execute something/doing something together'. IZ.net also says just 'participant' | I don't know if it's ok; this is what my dictionary listed :). So umhlanganyeli is more for, 'x participates in robbery/stabbing/rape/...'?, or, because it's a noun, the umhlanganyeli is the role that the participants play in the assualt (the 'x' in the previous sentence)? | It is the participant x in (commiting) an action y | |||||||