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pa-ki-su · W198

pakisu · liberty; freedom-state; the structural condition of unimpeded movement · ✅

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Domain Ethics / Politics / Philosophy
Class state / condition
Type compound
Register standard / formal
First use DOI-001, Declaration of Independence (S633): zo / pa-ki-su / ka-se fa-vo

Composition

pa (place/space) + ki (motion/change) + su (structure/order). Right-branching: pa-(ki-su). ki-su = the structure of/for motion = the organized condition permitting free movement. pa-(ki-su) = the spatial-relational domain constituted by that motion-structure = liberty. Contrast with pa-ki (W087, adrift = uncontrolled spatial motion): pa-ki-su adds su (structure), encoding liberty as organized freedom rather than chaos or adriftness. Liberty requires structure; W198 captures this exactly.

Definition

liberty; freedom-state; the structured systemic condition in which unimpeded movement and action are maintained as a stable property of persons' situation. Liberty as a structural entitlement, not merely the momentary absence of constraint.

Notes

W198. First attested DOI-001 (S633, Life / Liberty / pursuit of Happiness). The su head is the normative addition: liberty is not the absence of all structure but the presence of a structure that preserves and enables free movement. Contrast with pa-ki (W087 adrift) — adriftness lacks structure; liberty has it. The Declaration conceives Liberty as an entitlement (a stable structural feature), not a temporary condition. pa-ki-su encodes this political-philosophical precision.

pa (primitive), ki (primitive), su (primitive), pa-ki (W087 adrift — contrast, unstructured motion), pa-ki (W156 liberation — contrast, pending form-share resolution), no-ne-fe (W075 independence — relational absence)

In the corpus

2 attestations.

S# Tonesu
S633 zo / pa-ki-su / ka-se fa-vo
Life / Liberty / the pursuit of happiness.
S637 la-na-Colonies ne pa-ki-su / ne no-ne-fe
The Colonies are in a state of liberty and are free of all binding connection.
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