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--- In ceqli@yahoogroups.com, Rex May - Baloo <rmay@m...> wrote: > How do you like the word "pyu" for "more," (from Italian) and therefore > "pyur" for "most"? I coin "pyur" so as to be able to have a 'most' morpheme > to make words like 'favorite.' Or do we need this? Is maybe 'pyu' all we > need. > > Go pyu ga cem zi. Go pyu ga cem kul. (I'm the biggest.) > Go popyu ga cem zi. Go popyu ga cem kul. (I'm the least big) > > Another possibility is "zwey" for 'most' from Mandarin, and maybe "zwi" as a > back-formation meaning 'more.' Your samples show that 'more' is all we need. "pyu" or "zwi" would be fine....any chance one or the other would be a nice fit for some other morpheme? --K