de-be · W035
debe · repair, restore · ✅
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| Domain | general / technical |
| Class | process |
| Type | compound |
| Register | standard |
| First use | S180 |
Composition
de (decay/decrease) + be (growth/increase) — head-final: growth that is characterized as occurring after and in response to decay; recovery-growth; the specific form of increase that counteracts a prior decrease
Definition
repair; restore; reverse decay; bring back to functional state
Notes
The de-be compound is semantically precise: not all growth is repair (ka-be covers creation from nothing), and not all decay states are followed by growth. de-be specifically encodes directional recovery: from-decay-toward-growth. Applicable to physical objects (repairing a machine), infrastructure, relationships, or any system that can decay and be restored. Contrast: ka-be (creation from scratch, S014); de (decay, no recovery, S026).
Related
be (primitive: growth), de (primitive: decay), ka-be (create), ra-be (energy-growth)
Examples
"la-ze lo-ze ka-de-be-past" — she repaired it (S027) "ka-de-be" = the act of repairing
In the corpus
1 attestation.
| S# | Tonesu |
|---|---|
| S180 | no-go [la-mu de-be] lo-mu ruDespite the device being repaired, the device remains one. |
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