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Anton Sherwood scripsit:
> I want to say "my oldest possession", but of course I do own some
> artifacts much older than that. What languages have a distinct short
> word for this sense of "old"?
In Lojban it's "slabu", which is as short as a word can be (except for
grammatical particles, which can be monosyllabic). "Old" as in
"old friend". It can also mean "familiar" or "well-known".
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