Colloquial Forms

Registered contractions and stub-forms used in the casual/spoken register. All entries trace back to a canonical formal compound with a corpus attestation. Formal compounds remain the normative lexical entries; colloquial forms are spoken shortcuts, never the normative phonological form.

Contraction rule: A formal compound of 3+ morphemes may contract to a shorter CVC spoken form when: (1) the formal compound is at least 3 morphemes long; (2) the short form is unambiguous within its discourse domain; (3) the formal compound remains the canonical registered entry.

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CLQ ID	Form	Formal	Gloss	Status	First use
CLQ-001a	zol	zo-se-so-li	canid class (dog, wolf, coyote, jackal)	✅	S269
CLQ-001b	zof	zo-se-so-fe	felid/fox class (house cat, lion, tiger, leopard, fox)	✅	S269
CLQ-002a	zod	zo-se-so-di	bird class (Aves — eagle, parrot, penguin, chicken, sparrow)	✅	S284
CLQ-003a	zos	zo-su	plant class (trees, flowers, grass, vines)	✅	S292
CLQ-004a	mas	ma-su	rock / stone class	✅	S299
CLQ-005a	zom	zo-se-ma	fish / aquatic-organism class	✅	S313
CLQ-005b	zop	zo-se-so-pa	whale / cetacean class	✅	S311
CLQ-006a	zon	zo-se-ne	herd ungulate class (deer, horse, cattle, bison)	✅	S320

Compression notes

CLQ-001a — zol

Formal: zo-se-so-li · Gloss: canid class (dog, wolf, coyote, jackal)

Compression: zo + [se-so dropped] + li → zol

Base-class stub, not a standalone species label. Plain zol = canid class as a whole; species reference requires a retained discriminator (li-ne'zol = dog, wi-pu'zol = wolf). Discriminator prefixes are NOT dropped in contraction.

Related: CLQ-001b

CLQ-001b — zof

Formal: zo-se-so-fe · Gloss: felid/fox class (house cat, lion, tiger, leopard, fox)

Compression: zo + [se-so dropped] + fe → zof

Symmetric pair with zol. Plain zof = felid/fox class as a whole; species reference requires a retained discriminator (li-ne'zof = house cat, pu-zo'zof = lion, ko-pa'zof = fox). Registered simultaneously with zol on analogical grounds; first direct corpus use originally pending.

Related: CLQ-001a

CLQ-002a — zod

Formal: zo-se-so-di · Gloss: bird class (Aves — eagle, parrot, penguin, chicken, sparrow)

Compression: zo + [se-so dropped] + di → zod

Base-class stub, not a species label. Plain zod = bird class as a whole; species reference requires a retained discriminator (wi-di'zod = eagle, si-so'zod = parrot, ma-ki'zod = penguin).

CLQ-003a — zos

Formal: zo-su · Gloss: plant class (trees, flowers, grass, vines)

Compression: zo + su → zos (two-root base; solid written form = stub)

Two-root base; no middle acoustic-organism layer to drop. Different compression depth from zol/zof/zod (which drop se-so) but satisfies the same rule: unambiguous in discourse domain; formal compound canonical. Plain zos = plant class; discriminated forms retain prefix (be-di'zos = tree, lu-be'zos = flower, pa-be'zos = grass).

CLQ-004a — mas

Formal: ma-su · Gloss: rock / stone class

Compression: ma + su → mas (matter anchor; same mechanism as zos)

First colloquial stub anchored on ma (matter) rather than zo (organism). Plain mas = rock/stone class as a whole; discriminated forms retain prefix (pu'mas = aggregate rock / gravel / sand casual form).

CLQ-005a — zom

Formal: zo-se-ma · Gloss: fish / aquatic-organism class

Compression: zo + [se dropped] + ma → zom (one-root drop, not two)

Three-morpheme base (zo-se-ma); shallower than the four-morpheme acoustic-organism bases (zo-se-so-[x]), so only one middle root dropped rather than two. Plain zom = fish class; discriminated forms retain prefix (dipa'zom = salmon casual, wiki'zom = shark casual).

Related: CLQ-005b

CLQ-005b — zop

Formal: zo-se-so-pa · Gloss: whale / cetacean class

Compression: zo + [se-so dropped] + pa → zop

Architectural counterpart to zom. Whales are zo-se-so-pa (acoustic organisms whose signal operates at place scale), not zo-se-ma (matter-perceptual aquatic organisms). The fish/whale split is the central design decision of KNM-006: acoustic primacy, not aquatic habitat, determines the branch.

Related: CLQ-005a

CLQ-006a — zon

Formal: zo-se-ne · Gloss: herd ungulate class (deer, horse, cattle, bison)

Compression: zo + [se dropped] + ne → zon; terminal root ne: initial consonant n retained as coda

One-root drop (se dropped), same compression depth as zom. Terminal root ne contributes its initial consonant n as the stub coda. Plain zon = herd ungulate class; discriminated forms retain prefix (di'zon = horse casual, pu'zon = cattle casual, re'zon = deer casual).

Namespace collision notes

CVC forms that cannot be registered as stubs because the slot is already taken by an existing entry. These classes use their disyllabic formal base as their casual form instead.

KNM-008 — zo-pe (arthropod / invertebrate)

zop collides with CLQ-005b (zop is already taken) · first documented S327. Casual form for this class: zo-pe (disyllabic — no compression).

zo-pe → zop collides with whale stub (CLQ-005b). Arthropod base uses disyllabic casual form zo-pe. Discriminated species-level forms (ne'zo-pe, su'zo-pe, so'zo-pe, zi'zo-pe, de'zo-pe) retain their discriminator prefixes and are unaffected.

FNG-001 — zo-ne (fungal / mycelial)

zon collides with CLQ-006a (zon is already taken) · first documented S334. Casual form for this class: zo-ne (disyllabic — no compression).

zo-ne → zon collides with herd-ungulate stub (CLQ-006a). Fungal base uses disyllabic casual form zo-ne. Structural cause: a depth-2 compound zo-{Y} and a depth-3 compound zo-se-{Y} share terminal root Y and therefore produce colliding stubs whenever they end on the same root. Both collisions (KNM-008 and FNG-001) arise from this depth-boundary compression rule.

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