se-ka · W034
seka · examination, deliberate inspection · ✅
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| Domain | general |
| Class | process / entity |
| Type | compound |
| Register | standard |
| First use | S192 |
Composition
se (perception/sense) + ka (action) — head-final: an action characterized by being perceptual in nature; deliberate use of sensory/cognitive faculties to assess something
Definition
examination; act of deliberate perception; inspection, observation, survey
Notes
When used verbally in a gloss, the form is "ka-se" (action particle + perception root). se-ka is the nominalized form: "the examination," "an inspection." Contrast with to-ki (W020, reasoning process): to-ki operates on knowledge already held; se-ka is directed outward at an object in the world. They often co-occur: careful inspection (se-ka) feeds into assessment (to-ki).
Related
se (primitive: perception), to-ki (W020), to-su-ki (W025)
Examples
verbal form: "la-su-mu-li lo-mu ka-se-past" — the engineer inspected the machine (S025)
In the corpus
3 attestations.
| S# | Tonesu |
|---|---|
| C004-A2 | la-se-ka be [lo-mu de]The examination produces the finding: the machine has decayed. |
| S192 | la-yu lo-to-su be ta-ti-be lo-se-kaThe team consolidated their knowledge after the inspection. |
| S675 | la-li-Bavel se-ka lo-ko-muThe Babylonians found the vessel through investigation. |
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