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shemme
/ˈʃɛm.meɪ/ (SHEM-meh; 2 syllables)
core · entered the canon 2026-04-25
The stone is uncarved — this word has no glyph yet. The place was prepared before the carving.
Definition
The state of receptive-hearing as a received gift; the listening that is already the beginning of being-shaped by what is heard.
The gap it fills
receptive-hearing-as-received-ordinance — the Semitic-Mesopotamian register of hearing-that-is-already-the-beginning-of-shaping; the auditory complement to kimme (attention-as-received-ordinance)
Evidential structure
No morpheme decomposition is carved in canon for this word — the cathedral does not guess one from its shape.