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zo-ki-ma · W220

zokima · snake / serpent / limbless locomoting organism · ✅

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Domain biology / narrative / kinds
Class kind term (living thing)
Type compound
Register standard
First use EXO-002-A (S696): la-na-Aharon ka lo-zo-su-mu ; zo-su-mu ki ; ne zo-ki-ma

Composition

zo (living thing) + ki (motion/change) + ma (matter/substance). Head-final: zo is head; ki-ma (motion-matter) specifies the type. An organism whose defining character is matter-contact locomotion without limbs. Avoids collision with the inchoative pattern zo-ki ('come to life') by the -ma disambiguator. Right-branching: zo modifies [ki-ma] = living-thing of the matter-motion type.

Definition

snake; serpent; any limbless organism whose locomotion is exclusively through sinuous matter-contact motion. The organism defined by the complete integration of its body into its mode of movement — no limbs separate from the body; the body IS the locomotor apparatus. Covers snakes, serpents, eels, and other limbless elongated locomoting organisms.

Notes

First reptile-class kind term in the kinds taxonomy. Fills the gap between zo-se-[x] (perceptual-axis organisms) and zo-pe (arthropods/invertebrates). Snakes are neither primarily perceptual-mode organisms nor segmented; they are defined by locomotion mode: sinuous matter-contact movement without limbs. The -ma root disambiguates from the informal inchoative example (zo-ki = 'come to life'). EXO-002 first attestation (S696). Second attestation S699 (parallel transformation, sorcerers' staffs). S700 uses zo-ki-ma-na-Aharon as agent (Aaron's serpent swallows the rival staffs).

zo (living), ki (motion/change), ma (matter/substance), zo-pe (arthropods/invertebrates), zo-se-ma (aquatic vertebrates — adjacent class), zo-su-mu (W221: wooden staff — the object that transforms into zo-ki-ma in EXO-002)

In the corpus

2 attestations.

S# Tonesu
S696 la-na-Aharon ka lo-zo-su-mu ; zo-su-mu ki ; ne zo-ki-ma
Aaron cast the staff; the staff changed; [it was] a snake.
S699 zo-su-mu-ne ki ; ne zo-ki-ma
Their staffs changed; [they were] snakes.
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