In definition:
- ba'u
- discursive: exaggeration - accuracy - understatement.
- bi'u
- discursive: newly introduced information - previously introduced information.
- da'i
- discursive: supposing - in fact.
- da'o
- discursive: cancel pro-sumti/pro-bridi assignments.
- do'a
- discursive: generously - parsimoniously.
- je'u
- discursive: truth - falsity.
- ji'a
- discursive: additionally.
- jo'a
- discursive: metalinguistic affirmer.
- kau
- discursive: marks word serving as focus of indirect question: "I know WHO went to the store".
- ke'u
- discursive: repeating - continuing.
- ku'i
- discursive: however/but/in contrast.
- la'a
- discursive: probability - improbability.
- li'a
- discursive: clearly - obscurely.
- li'o
- discursive: omitted text (quoted material).
- mi'u
- discursive: ditto.
- mu'a
- discursive: for example - omitting - end examples.
- na'i
- discursive: metalinguistic negator.
- ni'o
- discursive: paragraph break; introduce new topic.
- no'i
- discursive: paragraph break; resume previous topic.
- pa'e
- discursive: justice - prejudice.
- pau
- discursive: optional question premarker.
- po'o
- discursive: uniquely, only, solely: the only relevant case.
- ra'u
- discursive: chiefly - equally - incidentally.
- sa'a
- discursive: material inserted by editor/narrator (bracketed text).
- sa'e
- discursive: precisely speaking - loosely speaking.
- sa'u
- discursive: simply - elaborating.
- sei
- start discursive (metalinguistic) bridi.
- se'u
- elidable terminator: end discursive bridi or mathematical precedence;usually elidable.
- si'a
- discursive: similarly.
- soi
- discursive: reciprocal sumti marker; indicates a reciprocal relationship between sumti.
- ta'o
- discursive: by the way - returning to main point.
- ta'u
- discursive: expanding the tanru - making a tanru.
- ti'o
- mathematical expression (mex) operator precedence (discursive).
- to'u
- discursive: in brief - in detail.
- va'i
- discursive: in other words - in the same words.
- xu
- discursive: true-false question.
- zu'u
- discursive: on the one hand - on the other hand.
- ba'ucu'i (comp!)
- discursive: exaggeration - accuracy - understatement.
- ba'unai (comp!)
- discursive: exaggeration - accuracy - understatement.
- bi'unai (comp!)
- discursive: newly introduced information - previously introduced information.
- ca'edai (comp!)
- discursive / expression: "If you say so"
- da'inai (comp!)
- discursive: supposing - in fact.
- do'anai (comp!)
- discursive: generously - parsimoniously.
- ja'onai (comp!)
- discursive/evidential: after all...
- je'aucu'i (comp!)
- discursive: correcting/corrective/correction - inattentive/uncaring/neutral toward the presence of possible errors - permitting (known/likely/plausible) errordiscursive: correcting/corrective/correction - inattentive/uncaring/neutral toward the presence of possible errors - permitting (known/likely/plausible) error/incompleteness/approximation
- je'aunai (comp!)
- discursive: correcting/corrective/correction - inattentive/uncaring/neutral toward the presence of possible errors - permitting (known/likely/plausible) errordiscursive: correcting/corrective/correction - inattentive/uncaring/neutral toward the presence of possible errors - permitting (known/likely/plausible) error/incompleteness/approximation
- je'unai (comp!)
- discursive: truth - falsity.
- ji'acu'i (comp!)
- discursive: continuing/extending/belaboring the point
- ji'anai (comp!)
- discursive: returning to or correcting a previous point, moving back in the conversation/discourse
- ke'unai (comp!)
- discursive: repeating - continuing.
- ku'inai (comp!)
- discursive: in accordance with it; as expected
- la'acu'i (comp!)
- discursive: probability - possibility - improbability.
- la'anai (comp!)
- discursive: probability - improbability.
- li'anai (comp!)
- discursive: clearly - obscurely.
- mu'acu'i (comp!)
- discursive: for example - omitting - end examples.
- mu'anai (comp!)
- discursive: for example - omitting - end examples.
- nomo'o (comp!)
- discursive utterance ordinal: zeroth section/chapter ordinal; foreword.
- pa'enai (comp!)
- discursive: justice - prejudice.
- pamai (comp!)
- discursive: first utterance ordinal.
- pamo'o (comp!)
- discursive utterance ordinal: first section/chapter ordinal.
- paunai (comp!)
- discursive: unreal/rhetorical question follows.
- po'onai (comp!)
- discursive: not exclusively, among others, including but not limited to.
- puzuvukiku (comp!)
- time-tense discursive: a long time ago and far away; locks frame-of-reference of time and space
- ra'ucu'i (comp!)
- discursive: chiefly - equally - incidentally.
- ra'unai (comp!)
- discursive: chiefly - equally - incidentally.
- remai (comp!)
- discursive: second utterance ordinal.
- romai (comp!)
- discursive utterance ordinal: finally; last utterance ordinal.
- sa'enai (comp!)
- discursive: precisely speaking - loosely speaking.
- sa'unai (comp!)
- discursive: simply - elaborating.
- ta'onai (comp!)
- discursive: by the way - returning to main point.
- ta'unai (comp!)
- discursive: making a tanru - expanding the tanru.
- to'unai (comp!)
- discursive: in brief - in detail.
- va'icu'i (comp!)
- discursive: in the same words.
- va'inai (comp!)
- discursive: in other words - in the same words.
- xunai (comp!)
- discursive: false-true question.
- za'umai (comp!)
- discursive: further utterance ordinal
- zu'unai (comp!)
- discursive: on the one hand - on the other hand.
- ba'ai (exp!)
- discursive suffix: attaches to number. "I expect with probability..."
- cau'i
- modifier / discursive: elliptical affirmative; "maybe, maybe not"
- ci'ai (exp!)
- discursive: marks an utterance as using something that is experimental/not official, especially experimental grammar
- cu'ei (exp!)
- discursive: indicate a change in speaker; used generally in quotations.
- cu'ei'a (exp!)
- discursive: indicate a change in speaker to ko'a; used generally in quotations.
- cu'ei'ai (exp!)
- discursive: indicate a change in speaker to first person (mi); used generally in quotations.
- cu'ei'e (exp!)
- discursive: indicate a change in speaker to ko'e; used generally in quotations.
- cu'ei'ei (exp!)
- discursive: indicate a change in speaker to general third person (zo'e); used generally in quotations.
- cu'ei'i (exp!)
- discursive: indicate a change in speaker to ko'i; used generally in quotations.
- cu'ei'o (exp!)
- discursive: indicate a change in speaker to ko'o; used generally in quotations.
- cu'ei'oi (exp!)
- discursive: indicate a change in speaker to second person (do); used generally in quotations.
- cu'ei'u (exp!)
- discursive: indicate a change in speaker to ko'u; used generally in quotations.
- cu'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u (exp!)
- discursive: verbosely – succinctly.
- dai'o (exp!)
- discursive & gafyzmico: reset/restore all defaults (permanently) to discourse-exterior specification; cancel all following discourse-interior default assignments
- do'ai (exp!)
- discursive & gafyzmico: ignore/kill all following default specifications (permanently)
- fu'au (exp!)
- discursive: luckily - not pertaining to luck - unluckily.
- fu'ei'a (exp!)
- discursive: indicate a change in speaker to fo'a; used generally in quotations.
- fu'ei'e (exp!)
- discursive: indicate a change in speaker to fo'e; used generally in quotations.
- fu'ei'i (exp!)
- discursive: indicate a change in speaker to fo'i; used generally in quotations.
- fu'ei'o (exp!)
- discursive: indicate a change in speaker to fo'o; used generally in quotations.
- fu'ei'u (exp!)
- discursive: indicate a change in speaker to fo'u; used generally in quotations.
- je'au (exp!)
- discursive: correcting/corrective/correction - inattentive/uncaring/neutral toward the presence of possible errors - permitting (known/likely/plausible) error/incompleteness/approximation
- kai'au (exp!)
- Adverbial, metacommentary-introducing, and complex discursive or attitudinal: I express this utterance in a manner or with mental state which is described by the immediately following and enclosed bridi in reference to the tagged construct, or assert that the said immediately following and enclosed bridi is true in application to the tagged construct in a metacommentary style.
- ko'oi (exp!)
- discursive: imperative/hortative
- mu'au'oi (exp!)
- Discursive: resuming/continuing example - start new example
- pau'i (exp!)
- discursive: marks the previous construction as a question, with valid responses being any construction which could replace it without changing the grammar of the overall utterance.
- pe'ai (exp!)
- discursive: layperson/laïc meaning;
marks a construct as layperson/common/non-technical/non-jargon speech/text
- pei'u (exp!)
- discursive: want a response - venting
- ra'ei (exp!)
- semi-discursive: and so forth, and so on, et cetera, continuing similarly
- sau'e'u (exp!)
- topicalizer (sumtcita/discursive; somewhat meta): the following discourse is about/relates to/has topic/concerns
- so'ei (exp!)
- discursive: "to be honest", being frank, candid, speaking one's mind, being forthcoming and demonstrating candor - deliberately "not getting into it", saying less than is on one's mind
- su'a'a (exp!)
- discursive: responding quickly - responding after a long time/necroposting.
- ta'ei (exp!)
- discursive: reconsideration of statement - continuing (on) in that line of thought/discussion
- tai'a (exp!)
- discursive: pay a lot of attention to what I just said - ignore what I just said.
- tei'i (exp!)
- discursive: Especially, foremost, primarily, chiefly, preëminently, importantly, significantly (laïc or statistics technical sense), in particular, strongly, notably - in common with, commonly, generally, usually, ordinarily, unnoteably.
- te'i'o (exp!)
- discursive: specified by the speaker - unspecified by the speaker
- tei'o (exp!)
- discursive: in theory - in practice.
- ue'e (exp!)
- discursive: counter-expectational – – aligning with expectations
- uei (exp!)
- discursive: optional answer premarker
- uoi (exp!)
- discursive: marks question construct as allowing filling it with answers that are non-referential constructs only
- va'oi (exp!)
- discursive: forces jvajvo reading of the preceding brivla; +nai: forces naljvajvo reading of the preceding brivla.
- xa'i (exp!)
- discursive: imagining/roleplaying - not imagining/"out of character / in real life"
- xe'o (exp!)
- discursive: simply/merely/just, "all there is to it" - not simply, not just, "there's more to it"
- xi'oi'ei (exp!)
- UI discursive: litotes - - anti-litotes
- xu'a (exp!)
- discursive: persuading - not arguing/negotiating - conceding
- zu'ei (exp!)
- Adverbial, metacommentary-introducing, and complex discursive: I express this utterance/construct/(rest of the) bridi which has been tagged for the purpose or goal of enacting, causing, enabling, implementing, actualizing, manifesting, enhancing, yielding, or rendering applicable the immediately following and enclosed bridi or in order to make the immediately following and enclosed bridi be true (or closer to the truth or more true or more strongly true) in application to the utterance/construct/rest of the bridi which has been tagged by this marker; the tagged expression/construct is for the benefit or sake of making the immediately following and enclosed bridi true.
In notes:
- su'a
- evidential: I generalize - I particularize
- jeku'i
- but
- su'anai (comp!)
- evidential: I generalize - I particularize