fa-ki · W093

faki · affect shift / change of register · ✅

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First use	S142 (fa-CON-C1, March 2026): la-mi fa-ki. no fa-be; no fa-de.

Composition

fa (affective substrate) + ki (motion/becoming/change)

Definition

The affective substrate changes character or register — not a change in level (up or down) but a qualitative shift: from diffuse to focused, from anxiety to dread, from grief to numbness. fa-ki names the change event itself; what the substrate shifted from and to is left underspecified unless context adds it. Distinct from fa-be (level rising) and fa-de (level falling): those are quantitative changes; fa-ki is qualitative.

Notes

The diagnostic sentence pattern "not fa-be; not fa-de" isolates fa-ki as the correct construction when affect changed without escalating or diminishing.

Related

fa (affective substrate), ki (motion/change), fa-be (W-pending), fa-de (W094)

In the corpus

1 attestation.

S#	Tonesu
S973	wi-fa-ki ne fa-ki go-si wi Enchantment remains an affect-will art.
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