`to-ko` · W027

toko · memory, stored knowledge · ✅


Domain	knowledge
Class	entity / concept
Type	compound
Register	standard
First use	S143

Composition

to (knowledge/pattern) + ko (containment) — knowledge held within; knowledge that persists rather than flows or processes

Definition

memory; retained or stored knowledge; the faculty or substrate of knowledge persistence

Notes

Colloquial compression pattern: ordinary speakers shorten the engineering compound ti-past-to-si-ko-mu (historical query archive) to to-ko or to-ko-mu in casual speech. Mechanism: (1) ti- dropped — living quality is contextually implied; (2) past dropped — the device is defined by its historical function; (3) to-si collapsed to to — lay speakers name the device by what it does for them (stores knowledge), not by its query mechanism; (4) -mu dropped by metonymy when the category referent is clear. This is the first documented casual compression in Tonesu. The pattern suggests: qualifier stripping + semantic nucleus retention + metonymic -mu drop. Formal rule for colloquial compression is pending (see notes/open-questions.md).

to-su (W030, organized structured knowledge), to-si (W026, query), to-ko-mu (memory device / formal compound)

Examples

"to-ko-ka" — the act of remembering (to-ko + action marker ka) S019 fragment: to-si-ko-mu — device that contains queries

In the corpus

3 attestations.

S#	Tonesu
S143	`la-mi fa-re. la-mi to-ko lo-su.` My affective substrate is cycling through a recurring pattern. I recognize this — the structure of this state has been stored.
S224	`la-mi to lo-to-ko` I remember. / I access a memory.
S241	`la-[zo-ne go gal ti] ka lo-to-ko` My great-grandparent left a memory. / The third-generation ancestor made records.
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Generated from registry/entries.yaml.

to-ko · W027