ti-fe · W037
tife · deadline, temporal boundary · ✅
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| Domain | general / technical |
| Class | entity / concept |
| Type | compound |
| Register | standard |
| First use | S424 |
Composition
ti (time/sequence) + fe (boundary/limit) — a boundary in the dimension of time; the point past which a process has exceeded its safe or intended temporal envelope
Definition
time-limit; deadline; the temporal boundary of a permissible or safe operating window
Notes
Extends the fe consolidation principle (Domain 4: Limits and Thresholds) into the temporal dimension. Tonesu does not treat deadlines as social conventions separate from physical limits — both are species of fe. A ti-fe is as real as a ra-fe (energy boundary) or a to-fe (epistemic boundary): crossing it has consequences that follow from the same ontological category. The compound is head-final: fe (boundary) is the head; ti (time) specifies the dimension. Compare: to-fe (knowledge-boundary), ra-fe (energy-boundary, unregistered but derivationally available), wi-fe (intention-limit/ethical constraint, unregistered). Do not confuse with ti-fe-ki (reaching the time-limit, the crossing event) or re-ti-fe (a recurring deadline — deadline that repeats on a cycle).
Related
fe (primitive: boundary/limit), ti (primitive: time), fe-si (W024: warning), fe-ki (reach a limit), to-fe (W028)
Examples
"ti-fe ki-now" — [it is] approaching the time-limit now (C001)
In the corpus
2 attestations.
| S# | Tonesu |
|---|---|
| C001-A2 | lo-re-mu de-now · ti-fe ki-nowThe backup unit is decaying. [It] approaches the time-limit. |
| S424 | [na-Jesus:] "fa-wi-mi nu-vo ka-zo-ra-ma lo-ka-pa-ki'ti-re ro-yu ti-fe fa-de-ra-mi""I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer." |
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