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Re: [ceqli] Re: new, young

The problem with using "unused" for "new" is that it doesn't really make sence in expressions like "new president", "new year", "new constitution" etc. For "new year" and "new constitution", "pigil" would work; for "new president" one could maybe use "pitaym" (alluding that he's been in office for a short time).

"snoy" for young would create confusion, as German "neu" means "new" and not "young". The "stari" "stiro" proposal sounds good though.

In the word list you use "jun" and "pojun" however. Are there any rules as to when you use reversal and when you use "po"?

If "beauty" and "goodness" are derived from "bel" and "haw", then maybe "age" should be derived from "stari" rather than being an independent word. Anyway, how do you derive abstract nouns from adjectives?

> go posel ko go pigil sa kanin.
>
> Contrariwise, that sentence could almost be taken as "I bought myself a new dog."

Should "I bought myself a new dog" be "go ko go posel pigil kanin" given that on that interpretation "ko go" modifies "posel"?

However, in chapter two of the grammar you write: "go don komxo ko zi" (I guess "komxo" was just a typo for "komco"). Couldn't one also say "go ko zi don komco" given that "ko zi" modifies "don"?

Now you wrote: "ciq bir goko pirun hu bu je bezu." Why did you use "goko" rather than "ko go"?

Marcos Cramer