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zo-ki-li · W212

zokili · ranger / wilderness guide · ✅

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First use DND-004, D&D Classes (S657): la-zo-ki-li ki lo-pa-fe

Composition

zo (living thing/organism) + ki (motion) + li (social agent). Head: li (agent-type). Modifier: zo-ki (organism-motion) = motion through the living world. A zo-ki-li is a person defined by their movement through natural/living environments. Right-branching: zo-(ki-li) = organism-kind-of-motion-person. Distinct from di-ki-li (W061, traveler = directional-motion-person): di-ki-li travels by direction/path; zo-ki-li moves through biological environments.

Notes

W212. First attested DND-004 (S657). D&D Classes batch. The sentence S657 uses pa-fe (W138, boundary-space/frontier) as the destination: a ranger moves to the frontier. The frontier is the structural definition of the ranger's domain — the edge between the known/settled world and the wild/unsettled. Distinct from di-ki-li (W061): a traveler moves along paths BY direction; a ranger moves THROUGH biological environments. The zo root marks the living-world context. Also distinct from zo-re-li (W210, druid): a druid is contained within living cycles (ko); a ranger moves through the living world (ki). Containment vs motion.

zo (primitive: living thing), ki (primitive: motion), li (primitive: social agent), di-ki-li (W061: traveler — directional motion, key contrast), zo-re-li (W210: druid — zo-compound, containment vs motion), pa-fe (W138: frontier/boundary-space — ranger's canonical destination)

In the corpus

1 attestation.

S# Tonesu
S657 la-zo-ki-li ki lo-pa-fe
A ranger moves to the frontier.
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