|Part of Speech:||term noun verb|
|Forms:||meppo, meppoca, meppos, meppocas, meppoka, meppokas|
|Glosses:||sense, intelligence, meppos, sensitive, sharp, sensation, sensor, observant, noticeable|
The term 'meppo' is a general word for sensation. It is an Old Common word.
As a noun, 'meppo' means a sense, or in the paucal, 'nar meppo', means 'the senses'. It is also used idiomatically to refer to a very specific kind of intelligence that we might call 'common sense' in English, but without the folksy connotation.
A number of derived forms are common:
- meppoca: a sensor, often used as a general word for sensing devices.
- meppoka: a sensation
As a verb, 'meppo' is a noxaj verb of sensing taking an absolutive sensor and dative thing sensed. Can be used figuratively to talk about something you reason or determine rather than something literally sensed.
A number of modifiers are derived from 'meppo':
- meppos: sharp, intelligent, observant
- meppocas: sensitive. Applied to a person it means the person notices everything around them, and it can have a secondary implication of 'thin skinned' in certain contexts. Applied to a sensor, it means the device is literally sensitive.
- meppokas: noticeable, sensational. Colloquially, this word has usually positive connotations of attracting notice, but can have a negative sense where notice is not desirable.