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--- In ceqli@yahoogroups.com, "HandyDad" <lsulky@r...> wrote: > --- 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? Good. Pretty much what I'd concluded. Next question. Esperanto has 'plu' for more-additional, as in donu min plu da biero. And it has 'pli' for more-comparative. English just has one word for both. Does ceqli need two? If not, we already borrowed Eo 'plu' for the first meaning. If you don't see any advantage in having two, let's just use 'plu' for both. And do you think of any words besided 'favorite' that would call for some kind of superlative meaning? And, thinking further.... Da bi gode cemkulde komxo. It is my than-all food. It is my favorite food. Works okay?