Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: PLEA: Chinese names

From: Ivan A Derzhanski <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 17:32:09 +0300

"Alfred W. Tueting (Tüting)" wrote:
> [...] yet I don't think that a word py: 'shi' /cr/
> is *suffixed* with py: 'er' /yr/ yielding something
> like 'shir'. In those cases the suffix is py: 'zi'.

Ah, okay. It seems that my textbook (not uncharacteristically
for scholarly works) is more concerned with the exhaustive
treatment of all possibilities (what would happen if _-er_ were
to be attached to _c(h)i_, _s(h)i_ or _z(h)i_?) than with the
actual occurrence of such words. It does, however, cite _shi4r_
`affair', _ci2r_ `word' and _zi4r_ `character', and notes that
they are pronounced as if the vowel were _e_ not _i_.

--Ivan