meaning
long and flexible thing; cord, hair, rope, thread, yarn | ALT line, connection
see also
semantic space · lipamanka
If it's long an you can tie it into a knot, it's linja! linja implies flexibility. By calling something linja, you are framing it as something that could be bent significantly, even if it can't. Let's say I call a metal bar a linja. I'm implying to me that I can bend it easily, that to me it is flimsy. But most of the time, linja are things like string or cooked spaghetti. Dried spaghetti would not be a linja because it's brittle. If I draw a line, perhaps it can be linja, because even though it is drawn and cannot be moved around on the page, it might be representing something that could.
ku translations
cord100, line100, string100, rope92, thread65, fibre54, cable43, link43, connection38, ray36, row36, streak36, wire33, hair30, sequence29, chain27, connect27, straight25
pu verbatim
NOUN long and flexible thing; cord, hair, rope, thread, yarn
usage
core · 99% usage
found in pu
coined pre-pu
origin
الفنلندية · linja ‘line’
Old Swedish · linia ‘line’
coined by jan Sonja
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