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"lolansastapsi" in K-E

Rick,
K-E has this entry:

>lolansastapsi - measurement, assessment, quantification,
    valuation. Note that "lolansastapsi" is a count noun because of the
    mass-to-count prefix "lo-", and refers to a discrete measurement.
    For the more generic sense of 'measuring', use "lansastapsi". Pi
    paxenidunda lolansastapsi kimu = How many measurements were needed?

It seems to me that it would be better to have an entry for "lansastapsi" and a reference in that entry to the count noun "lolansastapsi" rather than the way it is now.  After all, there are lots of words that can take the mass-to-count prefix "lo-", but they don't have their own entry, even when they are used in examples.

Steven