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Dear Ram, (Long
time, no mail. :)
I read carefully (and with pleasure) the Ladekwa
vocabulary from gidisyo (pupil of the eye) to goype. Reading it, I wrote down
each word element I encountered. (See below.) A few questions have
arisen.
- I forgot that you worked with voiced / unvoiced
consonant pairs (like "po" versus "bo"), but I joyfully re-recognized the
pattern (although does not seem to be always the case, is that a lack of
symmetry or just don't care?). Therefore, I wrote the word elements using this
alphabetic order:
aeiou mn pbfvw tdszcjl kgy
What do you think about that?
- I think it was for a period of a few pages very
difficult for me to distinguish between modifier and classifier. I think this
kind of distinction should be made to the user of the dictionary, as this is
what it's all about, isn't it?
- Links to the opposite / antonym word elements
would be really helpful.
- What does "other" mean, as in "other act" (pu)?
Is it an alternative for "ca" (activity)? In this case, I think you should also
link from "activity" to "other act" (which should be called "other activity"),
and so on.
- "tu" is "other scalar relationship". Would this
be the same as "other scalar relational state"? These "binary, measurable
physical, non-relational state"-stuff is worth a grammar for it's own, and I
would have felt more secure if I had read "other scalar relational state". The
reason is not that I would have understood it an easier way, it's just that I
would like to exclude that besides an "other scalar relationship" there would be
an "other scalar relational state", too.
- Why do you say "positive relational locative"?
Is there a negative one, too?
- I think I have read somewhere else "di" as if
it was "n-ary", I think this wouldn't be correct, would it?
- "goyjocea" is not a disc in my opinion, because
a disc is a plastic, three-dimensional thing. It's circle, isn't
it?
- I enjoyed guessing the meaning of "goyjwecea"
(I didn't succeed, though). But reading the translation "spiral/curl", it
was quite obvious to me.
- "gogyofyu" is "intelligence, information from
spying". So what does "performance component" mean? (I felt like
translating "gogyofyu" with "spying".)
- Translating verbs with "mpa" and so on, these
"mpa"-s would be really helpful to be translated. I'm still guessing what they
actually mean. (And they are sooo interesing!)
- I think "gofwama" doesn't mean "to know
(someone)", but "to be known (to someone)".
- The Ladekwa words for "behaviourist" and
"behaviourism" doesn't seem to be correct (or at least one of them). And I find
it strange that "behaviourism", which is a theory to me, as far as I know, ends
in "swi", which is a profession / an endavour.
- Why the "gi" in "gizose" and why the "zwa" in
gizwacu"?
- I would think that "gityano" means "the _inner_
capability of seeing", but you say "vision/sight", which is the _outer_
capability of seeing, so to say.
- "giko" is a verb, so you can translate it with
"_to be_ focussed _on_".
- How does the definition of UPPERCASE
words work? For instance, "gijo" = "FILM"?
- "gigawcaw" has "caw", which means a state, but
it's translation is a verb: "reflect fro, shine off of". Is this
correct?
ma =
to be (sts) : gitayma, gituma, gizwafawma mba
= to make (sts) : gofwamba mbe
= (sts) : gitaymbemo mbi
= to become (sts) : gidityambi me =
progressive form (sts) : gipyumpume mi =
actor (sts) : gigawcawmi mo =
adjective (sts) mpa
= to make (sts) : gocumpa, goybwacumpa, goybwafawmpa,
goycawmpa mpu
= to become (sts) : gicumpu, gifawmpu mya
= (sts) : gipyumya ne =
interrogative (sts) : gitayne no =
quality (sts) nsa
= to make (sts) : gikensa, gobyufawnsa nto
= times (sts) : gikunto nyu
= (sts) : gofyunyu nzi
= to make oneself ... for (sts), "AP/F-s suffix" : gikenzi,
gogicanzi pa =
personal pronoun bay
= tree/wood/paper/tall/vertical/leg pe =
other artificial location (typically infrastructure) be =
long/road/walk/line/string/hair po =
fish bo =
fish/water/liquid/swim poa
= /RAY poy
= performance attribute pu =
other act ≠
ca bu =
work/deed/project/orange bwa
= bound/restrained/certain/exact polarity pwe
= mammal bwe
= (sts) : goybweso pya
= other powered device ≠ pye
= other body part ≠ pyu
= antonym of relational locative <-> byu
= away/distant/foreign fa =
building(s)/place of business faw
= other binary non-relational state <-> cu vaw
= (sts) : gizevawswi fe =
nonliving phenomenon ve =
(sts) : givecoy fi =
social item fye
= farm/garden plant/HERB fo =
antonym of other scalar non-relational state <-> ke foy
= personal possessive adjective fu =
processed food substance vu =
(sts) : givukay fwa
= social/economic/political relation vwa
= N-tuple fwe
= electrical item fya
= other natural substance fyu
= performance component ta =
bird da =
bird/fly/high/lift/gas/sky/blue taw
= other natural location ≠ daw
= land/location/earth/natural/wild tay
= epistemic modal te =
speech act ti =
vehicle di =
fast/agile/move/go doa
= color toy
= antonym of measurable physical state <-> ce doy
= play/sport/leisure tu =
other scalar relationship ≠ du =
connect/intermediary/neck/between twa
= positive relational locative + tya
= living entity attribute <-> kwe dyo
= plant/green/growth/leaf saw
= container/conduit zaw
= (sts) : gizawfi se =
group member ze =
(sts) : gizevawswi si =
demonstrative adjective zi =
(sts) : gizifi so =
plant/animal substance zo =
red/blood/combat/violence zoy
= kinship/family/trust su =
other artificial item ≠ syo
= animal organ swa
= locative deictic zwa
= nine/push/press/give/exit swe
= period of time swi
= profession/endeavor sye
= seperator/barrier syo
= animal organ zyo
= (sts) : gizyokya ca =
activity ≠
pu ja =
six/good/want/purpose/PLAN/SCHEME caw
= other binary relational state ≠ ce =
measurable physical state <-> toy cea
= symbol/shape co =
section of building jo =
flat/two-dimensional coy
= nonliving energy joy
= energy/power/strong/leadership cu =
opposite of other binary non-relational state <->
faw cwa
= reptile/amphibian cwe
= natural thing jwe
= arm/branch/extension/lever/crane cwi
= other animal law
= feminine (sts) loy
= masculine (sts) ka =
group/organization kaw
= involuntary act gaw
= jump/spring/back-and-forth/iterate kay
= complete performance ke =
other scalar non-relational state <-> fo ge =
high polarity/big kea
= other vertebrate gi =
three/see/light/evident/show/EYE gin
= point/peak/extremity/tail/HORN ko =
mental state go =
knowledge/wisdom/correct/COMPUTER goy
= round/rotate/fat/full ku =
numeric gu =
number/count/repetition/group kwa
= protocol/standard/system gwa
= law/justice/court/civilization kwe
= opposite of living entity attribute <-> tya gwe
= death/inactive/sorrow kwi
= tool/instrument gwi
= cut/slice/sharp kya
= clothing gya
= clothing/shirt/thick/wide/chest kye
= other artificial substance kyo
= temporal deictic gyo
= pull/receive/request/collect/enter kyu
= forniture
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