How to Form Words

Words are formed from primitives and other words. A word or a primitive is known as a "combinator". A string of combinators is considered a word, where the first combinator modifies the second combinator, then the first two combinators considered as a group modifies the third combinator, etc.

In order to embed a word as a combinator into another word, surround the embedded word with the appropriate delimiters. If there are no smaller words embedded in the word that you want to embed, the proper primitive is "a". If there is a smaller word embedded that uses "a" in the word you want to embed, the proper delimiter is "ô". If there is a smaller word with an "ô" embedded in the word you want to in turn embed into the bigger word, then the proper delimiter is "â". Finally, if there is an "â" in the word you want to embed, then the proper delimiter is "î".

This is a bit complicated to explain with words from scratch, so here are three examples that build up to us learning how the word for "brain" is composed.

"Hlvpʙ" means "biological organ" and it's built from right to left. First, "h" (information) modifies "l" (wave) to create "hl" (information wave, or "life"). Then "hl" (life) modifies "v" (process) to get "hlv" ("life process" or "metabolism"). Then "hlv" (metabolism) modifies "p" (unit) to get "hlvp" ("metabolism unit" or "biological cell"). Finally, "hlvp" (cell) modifies "ʙ" ("aggregation") to get "hlvpʙ", which means "cell aggregation" or, more succinctly "organ".

Now, let's look at "zahlvpa". To build, we start with "z" (sensation) and then we come across "a", which denotes that a word is being embedded in this word. Going to the matching "a" we get "ahlvpa". Ignoring the delimiters, that's "hlvp" or, as we just discovered "cell". Therefore, "zahlvpa" means "sensation cell" or "neuron".

Finally, let's look at "zahlvpaʙ". In this case, we can already read "zahlvpa" as "neuron". Then, it modifies "ʙ" (agglomeration), so this means "neuron agglomeration" or "brain" (or "ganglion", though perhaps "zahlvpaʙin" would be most appropriate for "ganglion", once you learn how "-in" is systemically formed as a diminuitive).

Note that the word "hlvpʙ" is not in "zahlvpaʙ" because the latter rebrackets the words. A brain is an agglomeration of sensation cells, not a sensation organ (it also perceives and conceives, two other Śfabfa primitives).