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no-lu-ti · W141

noluti · nighttime, dark-period · ⏳

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Domain general / temporal
Class temporal entity
Type compound
Register standard
First use Genesis 1:14–19 ("lights to govern the day and the night"; the lesser light-body governs no-lu-ti = the dark-period).

Composition

no (negation/absence) + lu (light) + ti (time/temporal sequence) = not-light-time = the time-period defined by the absence of light. Head-final: ti (time) is head; no-lu specifies the temporal character by the absence of the defining quality (light).

Definition

nighttime; the dark-period; the temporal interval characterized by the absence of light; night hours. The negation-of-light temporal phase. Hebrew layil (night). Pair: lu-ti (W140: daytime).

Notes

no-lu-ti applies the productive no-X pattern (no-lu = dark; no-ki = still; no-su = structureless; etc.) to the temporal domain: no-lu-ti = the time that is no-lu (without-light) = night. "There was evening, and there was morning" in Genesis uses fe-ki (boundary-onset) for each phase; no-lu-ti and lu-ti (W140) are the named periods that those boundaries delimit.

no (primitive: negation/absence), lu (primitive: light), ti (primitive: time/sequence), lu-ti (W140: daytime), lu-mu (W139: light-bodies that govern this period)

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