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su'ma · W113

su'ma · solid (material state) · ⏳

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Domain physical / chemistry
Class material quality / state
Type compound
Register standard
First use pending corpus attestation

Composition

su (structure/organized form) + ma (matter) = structured matter. The apostrophe marks su as a discriminator on the base ma: the kind of matter defined by having organized structure.

Definition

solid; matter in its organized, fixed-structure state; the physical state of matter with both fixed shape and fixed volume.

Notes

su as "organized solid form of a substance" is consistent across all its corpus uses: ma-su (rock = structured mineral matter, S293), su'ma-ki (ice = structured flowing matter, S300), su'ma-pa (clay = structured soil, S293), su'zo-pe (spider = structure-building arthropod, S323), su'zo-ne (cap fungus = structure-producing fungus, S330). su'ma names the general solid state of any matter, as distinct from those specific-substance compounds where su also discriminates a particular material kind. su'ma is the bulk-state term. su'ma-[X] (structured matter of a specific kind) captures specific solid-state substances as before.

ki'ma (W114: liquid), no-su'ma (W115: gas), ma-ra (W116: plasma), ma-su (rock), su'ma-ki (ice), su'ma-pa (clay), su (primitive), ma (primitive)

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