Entry:puiwob

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Tovasala

puiwob
Multi-letter group A–E F–J K–O P–T U–Z
Alphabetical position A B CH D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W X Y Z
Alphabetical group P R S T

puiwob adp 2 / 11b [/pwɪ.wob/; pui•wob (2 syll.)] Local portmanteau [Blend of puilom + wob.]

1 : in the past

puiwobu adv not comparable [/pwɪ.wo.bu/; pui•wo•bu]
1 : at the time, back in the day, in these days, in those days, in days gone by
2 : back then, way back when, then
In contemporary children's/young adult/new adult/adult fiction, abbreviated before the opening line as Pui. Texts marked as such assume the present tense throughout; a few languages employ a similar technique known as the historical present.

Antonyms

nuwob (recently), nodob (today), fuiwob (soon)

Coordinate terms

puewob (long ago/ages ago), -lur (tense suffix)
Time terms
maurve (time) • merome (date) • wob (during) • woshème (duration) • prolwob (meantime/meanwhile)

maurpointe (timepoint/instant/moment) • maurad (at the time) • kaurad/jaurad (when)

maurvomil (chronology/chronological) • maurvinealde (chronograph)

haurealde (clock) • haurealte (watch) • haurostar (tell time) • proshaurealte (stopwatch)

maurveshume (unit of time) • sekite (second) (nänossekite [nanosecond] • kïlottriemsekite [millisecond]) • minèle (minute) • haurile (hour)

dième (day) • ditrieme (time of day/daypart) (premluze [dawn] • solprente [sunrise] • froditrieme [morning] • mẽrkitrieme [noon/midday] • sẽrditrieme [afternoon]) • nochème (night) • nochieme (time of night) (solfuinte [sunset] • fuingluze [dusk] • fronochieme [evening] • sẽrtochieme [late night] • mẽrkochieme [midnight] • nultochieme [overnight])

sepème (week) • sepente (weekend)

masine (month)

anove (year) • deyanove (decade) • sentanove (century) • kiloganove (millennium) • woshemarde (era/epoch)

vuidème (yesterday) • nodème (today) • nouchème (tonight) • suidème (tomorrow) • touƒsuidème (overmorrow)

nupome (recent times) • puilome (past/history) • pualome (former/discontinuous past) • puengome (distant past) • nourome (present/current) • fuilome (future)

nuwob (recently) • puiwob (long ago) • puawob (formerly) • nourob (presently/currently) • fuiwob (in the future)
Added on: 2021-12-05, 07:49View semantic data