e-tay
English: Translation
To stretch, hang, or suspend a line, cord, rope, wire, or similar flexible object between two raised or separated points. Used especially of installing a clothesline by fastening its two ends to posts, trees, walls, or other supports.
Notes
e-tay
v.
Semantic note
The defining image is a line held aloft through tension between two supporting points. Unlike simply hanging an object from one support, e-tay profiles a span maintained between opposing anchors.
Compare
- olay — carry loads balanced upon a pole.
- towaw — become unbalanced through unequal loading.
- rigay — lean or stand out of plumb.
| Boie’nen | Concrete schema | Abstract implication |
| rigay | leaning from the upright | bias; departure from right order |
| towaw | tilting under unequal loading | one-sidedness; disproportion |
| olay | actively counterbalancing loads | equity; compensatory balance |
| karis | removing excess to a fixed measure | fair and standardized measurement |
| paryo | equal or level | equality and parity |
| angay | appropriate or fitting | proportionality; what is due |
| osay | restoring proper order | rectification |
| taxaytay | orderly alignment | systemic order |
| e-tay | tension maintained between supports | equilibrium within opposing forces |