meaning
want, desire, wish, require; (preverb) want to
semantic space · lipamanka
The semantic space of wile contains all desires. A desire to eat is a wile. A desire to be near others is a wile. These desires can be influenced by external forces: a desire to do tedious chores motivated by the prospect of negative consequences is a wile. By using wile to describe something, it's being framed as a type of desire. For example, if I normally don't want to tidy up my workspace but I feel obligated to anyway, if I used wile to describe that feeling of obligation, I'd be describing it as some sort of desire. This can be used for anything, no matter how animate. Speakers frame nonliving objects as having desires very frequently.
A warning I have for wile is assuming it contains the idea of a "need." A "need" is a complex concept and trying to use wile to describe it is misguided. While most needs can be framed as types of desires, the goal of "wile" isn't to merge those concepts, it's to throw one of them away. This enables a toki ponist to align their desires with their actions by giving them a word to describe their desires without any complex connotation. Sometimes it's more useful to say "my body wants food, but I don't want to eat."
Another part of wile's usage is its use as a preverb. wile changes the sentence it's part of to make the subject desire to perform the verb, rather than just performing it. It's similar to the word "want" in english.
ku translations
want100 wish94 intend93 require90 need88 desire87 intention84 willing83 will81 intent80 preference79 motivation75 necessity73 ought71 yearn71 necessary70 ambition67 hope67 prefer67 willingness67 requirement64 required61 must59 obligation56 decision54 should53 demand50 eager50 request47 agenda41 goal40 motive38 select38 would38 criteria36 dare36 interested36 opt36 choose35 consent35 determination33 expectation33 objective33 pick33 shall33 urge33 depend32 dependent31 elect31 deserve30 selection29 choice27 incentive27 strive27 enthusiasm25 interest25 supposed25
pu verbatim
- PRE-VERB must, need, require, should, want, wish
usage
core · 100% usage
found in pu
coined pre-pu
origin
Dutch · willen ‘want, desire’
coined by jan Sonja
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wile wile2perhaps from Latin letter W
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