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You know what would be a great resource for Ceqli? A good Chinese-English-Chinese dictionary, in pinyin or maybe wade-giles or yale, that clearly indicated the elements of compound words, so that we could actually form compounds the same way, in some cases, or at least get suggestions from the Chinese system. Recently, on auxlang, I got some heavy criticism from some Spanish fellow, who objected to the Ceqli words for 'Bible,' and 'Abbey,' among others. He persuaded me that they're awkward, so I'm in the process of making 'Bible' "xenhon," or god-book, and abbey into 'sunimjay,' or monk-place. Abbot will be 'sunimjaybo,' of course. So, henceforth, I intend to look for the Chinese compound whenever I'm looking for a new word ? not to use the Chinese -words-, you understand, but to use the compounding rationale, as in 'sunimjaybo,' which is Korean, Hindi, and English roots combined in the Chinese way.