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on 4/30/02 2:43 PM, Rob Speer at rob@hidden.email wrote:
>
> mi (I/me, we/us the speakers) -> go
> do (you (singular or plural)) -> zi
> [Why was "zi" chosen over other possible cognates for "you" (like 'tu'
> or 'du'?)]
> ti (this) -> ci
> ta (that) -> ca
> tu (that yonder) -> cu
> [Or have these turned into tci, tca, tcu? Is <affricate>V a pinvor
> form?]
> zo'e (something) -> zjo
>
> Names are expressed with "ti" and a word ending with a full consonant
> and a pause. "ti djans.", "ti .meris."
>
> cu -> ga
> vau (predicate terminator) -> vjaj
> vecnu (x1 sells x2 to x3 for price x4) -> ven (x1 sells x2 to x3)
for this I had 'sel', and 'ven' for 'come.'
> tavla (x1 talks to x2 about x3 in language x4) -> kal(?) (x1 talks to x2
> about x3)
Ok. Now what would the places be for 'bol'?
> melbi (x1 is beautiful to x2 by standard x3) -> bel (x1 is beautiful to
> x2)
>
> xu (yes/no) -> kwe(?)
I had 'kju' for this, from English name for letter Q. Did we decide that
the word can mean 'with what certitude'? If so, it would be nice to use a
kw word.
> fa/fe/fi/fo/fu (place tags) -> fa/fe/fi
>
> They don't use the word "gismu" up to this point, but it's another
> common metalinguistic word ("root word"). Lojban's etymology file has
> "geniuan" as the phonetic spelling of the Chinese source word, and
> "korin" from Russian; the other languages don't really have anything
> useful. Should Ceqli use "geni"?
Maybe. Hindi has 'dxar' for 'root'. Of course, we might want that for
'jar'. Is gismu eqivalent to 'primitive' in Loglan? If so, we could call
them 'primi'. Hindi also has 'bina' for 'foundation' and 'curu' for
'beginning'.
>
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