`ka-mu` · W047

kamu · tool, action instrument · ✅


Domain	material / technical
Class	entity / object
Type	compound
Register	standard
First use	S071

Composition

ka (deliberate action) + mu (artifact) — artifact whose identity is the action it performs. Head-final: mu (artifact) is head; ka specifies functional class.

Definition

tool; an artifact defined by its action-function; an instrument for performing a specific deliberate action.

Notes

Distinct from ra-ki-mu (engine/power-machine, W012) where the artifact is defined by energy and motion. ka-mu is the generic functional tool: the artifact is defined by what deliberate action it affords. Used in S047A (ka-mu-to = concept of device-maintenance) and S071 (ka-mu as physical object). Also appears as the suffix exemplar in morphology.md (-mu = device/instrument; ka-mu → tool for the action).

mu (artifact), ka (deliberate action), ra-ki-mu (W012), ko-mu (W052, vessel)

Examples

"la-ze lo-ka-mu ne-ko-mu ka-ko" — he placed the tool into the container (S071)

In the corpus

4 attestations.

S#	Tonesu
S071	`la-ze lo-ka-mu ne-ko-mu ka-ko` He placed the tool into the container.
S681	`ti-re-Mercury : la-to-ra-li ka lu-ka-mu` In the Mercury time-slot, the practitioner makes the instruments.
S682	`la-to-ra-li ka-fe-vo lo-ka-mu go-wi-ka` The practitioner consecrates the instruments through ritual.
S846	`la-wi-ra-ki no ne ka-mu / la-wi-ra-ki helms a-ra-su` "Terror is not [merely] a tool of totalitarianism; terror IS totalitarianism."
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ka-mu · W047