3) For the sense of being close (or not close) or having (or not having) wiggle room or leeway (e.g. a comfortable distance away [from something] or a comfortable victory), use tey ("scrape") or teybe'. (teybe' yay "the victory didn't scrape" or "the victory was comfortable." If you were victorious, but just barely or made it at the last minute or something like that, you could say tey yay.)
ghItlhpu' Voragh, jatlh:
> N.B. do not confuse with the homonym {tey} "be uncomfortable, be close".
jangpu' nIqolay, jatlh:
> Is this really a homonym? When the word was revealed, I got the impression
> it was more of an idiomatic meaning of {tey} rather than a separate word.
I suppose the answer would lie in whether or not one can say ??{yay tey} "a close victory".
jang je SuStel, jatlh:
> It's probably a reference to shaving.
Perhaps, though I think more likely is the phrasal verb "scrape by". From Merriam-Webster:
1: to live with barely enough money; to be able to buy only the things most needed.QeS 'utlh
Money was tight, but we somehow managed to scrape by.
2 : to succeed at doing something but just barely.
He didn't study for the exam and just barely scraped by.
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