Translation
primeval; one generation further back
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Examples
oj .
The earliest humans lived without fire.
o.
We walked all day through primeval forest.
oj .
In ancient times the sea covered the valley.
o Hispanio.
My great-grandfather was born in Spain.
o.
The story comes from our forefather.
- does two jobs with one shape. On kinship it adds a generation and stacks freely: gives o, gives o, and o is perfectly readable. On anything else it pushes the thing back to its earliest form: gives o, gives o, gives o, gives o. The root keeps its part of speech throughout.
Do not treat it as a synonym for . Antiquity is an age people wrote down and argued about; - reaches behind the writing, to forests nobody planted and ancestors nobody named.
Its opposite number in the kinship system is -, which moves sideways into a marriage. - only ever moves backwards, and it never moves forwards.
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