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wi-zo · W145

wizo · wild animal, autonomous organism · ⏳

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Domain biology / ecology
Class entity / biological
Type compound
Register standard / biological
First use Genesis 1:24–25 ("let the land produce living creatures: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals" — wi-zo = wild animals, contrasted with zo-se-ne = herd/
social animals).

Composition

wi (will/intention) + zo (living thing/organism) = will-governed- organism = organism defined by self-directed behavior. Head-final: zo (living thing) is head; wi specifies the defining quality — this is the kind of organism characterized by autonomous will- direction.

Definition

wild animal; autonomous organism; a living thing characterized by self-directed will rather than human direction; an organism that acts according to its own instinct and purpose without domestication. Hebrew hayah (living creature / wild animal) as contrasted with livestock in Genesis 1:24–25.

Notes

wi-zo marks the Genesis 1:24–25 three-way land-animal taxonomy: wi-zo = wild (self-willed) organisms zo-se-ne = social-relational herd animals = livestock (KNM-007) ma-zo-ki (W146) = ground-crawling organisms The structural contrast is clear: wi-zo are defined by will (wi); zo-se-ne are defined by social-relational bonds (ne). Domestication is the process of transitioning a wi-zo toward zo-se-ne status — replacing autonomous will-direction with human-directed behavior.

wi (primitive: will/intention), zo (primitive: living thing), zo-se-ne (herd animals / livestock, KNM-007), ma-zo-ki (W146: crawlers), wi-de-li (W124: adversary — different domain but same wi-root)

In the corpus

1 attestation.

S# Tonesu
S372 la-wi-zo lo-wi-zo de [descriptive]
Wild animals kill each other. [de — descriptive fact]
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