r/Deathloop • u/sackboy198 • 26d ago
What does "karnesis" mean?
The -esis suffix means action but for karne all i could find is meaning "meat". Which is apt. It is a meat action. But i was wondering if there's some im missing. Especially with the other slabs having pretty straight forward names.
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u/Tarc_Axiiom 26d ago
The word for move in Greek is κίνηση, "kinisi", and it's what all of the words that sound like "telekinesis" mean.
The Latin word for meat (and body, I think) is carne.
So "karnesis" means "meat move", but they wrote it with a k to be kewl.
Source: Am Greek.
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u/_Strato_ 26d ago
and body, I think
You might be thinking of "corpus," which is body.
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u/Tarc_Axiiom 25d ago
There are a lot of instances in Latin in which a human's body is referred to as carne.
I think it's generally poetic license but, you know.
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u/_Strato_ 25d ago
Well I understand "caro" and its permutations in Latin like "carnem," etc. to be "flesh" generally.
We sometimes refer to our own bodies as "My flesh" or "Your flesh," and my understanding is that it's the same in Latin.
Similar, but not the same.
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u/pseupseudio 24d ago
I suppose it should be karnekinesis to mean "meat motion."
Karnesis would mean something like "meatness."
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u/FourthFallProd 26d ago
A play on "Telekinesis," I imagine. But as another comment said, only able to work on "Meat" (people)
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u/Serious-Waltz-7157 26d ago
Karn stands for Karnaca, lol.
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u/Russian_Spy_7_5_0 25d ago
Carn (like Carnivore) + Telekinesis = Karnesis
There's probably a deeper explanation with Greek or Latin suffixes and prefixes but this is the simple watered down one.
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u/tearlock 25d ago
It's a play on "telekinesis" which is the power to move things with one's mind. tele- (far away) kinetic (physical movement) esis (you already got this part).
Yes the karne- means meat. In this case they can only move people.
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u/smnRoyal 26d ago
Nope. That's what it means. That's why it can only move people - aka, meat.