`pa-wi-ka-su` · W066

pawikasu · shrine, temple · ✅


Domain	religious / social / spatial
Class	entity / place
Type	compound
Register	standard / formal
First use	S085

Composition

pa (place) + wi (will/intention) + ka (deliberate action) + su (structure) — a place that is an organized structure for intentional practice. Head-final: su (structure) is head; wi-ka (intentional action) specifies the type of organization; pa marks it as a place.

Definition

shrine; temple; a place constituted by its function as a ritual institution.

Notes

Four-morpheme compound; close to the word-formation spec's recommended limit before restructuring as a phrase. However, the compound is compositionally transparent at each step and the full referent (a formal place for organized intentional practice) benefits from being a single lexical item in religious discourse. Shorter alternatives: pa-wi-ka (place of intentional practice, informal/general) vs pa-wi-ka-su (recognized/formal institutional site). For casual speech, pa-wi-ka is preferred; formal register uses pa-wi-ka-su.

pa (place), wi (will), ka (action), su (structure), wi-ka-su (W054, ritual)

Examples

"la-zo-si lo-pa-wi-ka-su no-de" — the spirits preserve the shrine (S085)

In the corpus

1 attestation.

S#	Tonesu
S085	`la-zo-si lo-pa-wi-ka-su no-de` The spirits preserve the ritual place.
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pa-wi-ka-su · W066