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Re: pyu



--- 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