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la and cusku di'e
According the mahoste -- the gloss "most", and things like "so'e roi", it doesmean a majority. so'a and so'e make no sense at all unless they are definedin terms of ro. But the issue is whether so'o, so'i and so'u are also defined in terms of ro. If they are, then what do they all mean, and how do we say "many" and "few", given that they aren't defined in terms of ro?
I think we can at least say that they all have import.
{so'V broda cu brode} entails {su'o broda cu brode} for the
five V. (In fact so'i, so'o and so'u probably all entail
su'ore. "One" can't be "few", "several" or "many", and probably
it can't be "most", but it could eventually be "almost all"
when "all" is "two". Also, {so'a broda cu brode} and {so'e broda
cu brode} each entails {me'iro broda cu brode}.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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