Give the weaver's look the attenuator it wanted

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What this does

Morris writes that a shade of anxiousness passed over the weaver's face. Phi rendered the shade with thiku, the size adjective, standing directly before weshoru (anxious). Two readings stayed open: a slight anxiety, or a small look. The maintainer rules it the first, so the attenuator takes the position and the look keeps its own shape.

whekai la weshoru kire leo ne selomi menoa to wepu.
CONTR ATTEN anxious shape ABOVE NAME selomi face PST go.
(but a slightly anxious look passed over the weaver's face)
morris: "but a shade of anxiousness passed over the weaver's face"

la lowers the degree of the word it precedes, which is what a shade of a feeling is. The English back-translation says slightly anxious rather than borrowing Morris's own phrase, since the parenthetical answers for the Phi and the source line already carries his wording.

Why the size word was the wrong tool

thiku covers the small end of overall scale, and its entry extends that to amounts and undertakings. It has no business lowering a quality, which is the attenuator's work. Placed before an adjective it produces exactly the conflation the sweep was hunting: one word carrying both size and degree.

A corpus scan finds fifteen places where thiku or teku stands immediately before an adjective. Fourteen are stacked attributives on a following noun, and they stay: little great-cats on the boat's side, the first short strong wind, small smooth stones in the floor, the rabbit's small warm jaw. One of them, thiku mioru in the same chapter, reads as an amount of beauty rather than a degree, which the entry allows. This line was the only one where the adjective it preceded was the thing being lowered.

The book was already doing it correctly elsewhere. Chapter 2 carries la theru, la rohemi, la thoru, and la nilua, so the correction brings chapter 3 into line with the practice beside it rather than introducing anything new.

Verification

The morris: citation is unchanged and remains verbatim in the stored witness at source.txt:557. The line appears nowhere else in the corpus, so nothing quotes the old form. The sentence reads correctly in grammar order: discourse adverb, subject with its modifiers, the leo phrase with its preposition before its object and the possessor before the possessed, then the Slot 1 cluster on the verb.

Validator run standalone: 1,287 entries, 0 errors, 0 warnings. The site builds. The phonetic neighbor baseline regenerates with no diff.

This closes the last open item of the conflation sweep.