Subject: Vocabulary (more to come)

From: Elrond <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 03:20:07 +0200 (CEST)

Hi,
	I'm preparing still more lojban words for my work... Any comments?

ki'e co'o
mi'e rafael

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the tengwar as a writing system:la tenguar
(not-really-exact definition: la tenguar cu cmene le lerfrtengua selylerfu)

lerfrtengua	x1 is a tengwa representing sound/phoneme x2 under mode x3 with
		structure (lúvar/telcor) x4
(also "lerfu be la tenguar" for quick explanation purposes)
		
lerfrtexta	x1 is a tehta representing sound/with meaning x2 under mode x3

lerfromatexta	x1 is an ómatehta over tengwa x2 representing vowel x3 
		under mode x4 
		
[lerfrtengua] ci'arci'e : a [tengwar] writing mode (place structure of ciste)

The names of the tengwar:
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tinco:tinkor	parma:parman	calma:kalman	quesse:kuesen
ando:andor	umbar:umbar	anga:angar	ungwe:unguen
thûle:sulen	formen:formen	charma:xarman	chwesta:xuestar
anto:antor	ampa:ampar	anca:ankar	unque:unkuen
nûmen:numen	malta:maltar	ñoldo:nioldon	ñwalme:nualmen
ôre:oren	vala:valan	anna:anan	wilya:uilian

?		?		lamba:lamben	alda:aldan
silme:silmen	s. nuquerna:silmen.nukuernan 
				áze:azen	á. nuquerna:azen.nukuernan
hyarmen:iarmen	?		yanta:iantar	úre:uren

halla:alar

(FIXME: the choice of the final consonant is completely arbitrary (although
somewhat based on the niceness of the resulting spoken forms, any idea of 
a "logical" way to end those words ?)

(NOTE: the justification of the transcription of the 'ch' sounds is given on a
detailed description of the tengwar system, on a separate web page)

Other words:
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pusta:pustar

bevle'u		x1 is a sign/letter carrying sign/letter/accent x2 in
		 alphabet/character set x3 representing x4
		(x1 = bevri1/lerfu1, x2 = bevri2, x3 = lerfu2, x4 = lerfu3)

selbevle'u	x1 is an accent/sign/letter carried by sign/letter x2 in ...
		(see bevle'u)
		
tengrtelco	x1 is the telco(stem) of tengwa x2
(short: tordu, long+down:dzicla, long+up: galcla)
tengrluva	x1 is a lúva(bow) of tengwa x2
(closed lúva: mulno-, open-: narmu'o)

example: 
la parman cu lerfrtengua fo pa dzicla tengrtelco .e pa ri'u mulno tengrluva
 
'parma' is a tengwa built with one downward 'telco' and one right-oriented 
closed 'lúva'.

(FIXME: wouldn't it be better not to include this x4 place in the fu'ivla
"lerfrtengua", and use "sema'e" of selma'o BAI to indicate the structure ?)

lersni		x1 is a written symbol meaning x2 in alphabet x3
		(x1 = lerfu1/sinxa1, x2 = sinxa2/lerfu3, x3 = lerfu2)

nitci'ali'i	x1 is an underline stroke for text/signs x2 
		(x1 = cnita1/linji1, x2 = ciska2)

jmifa'i		x1 is figuring out fact/truth x2 about subject x3
		(x1 = jimpe1/facki1, x2 = jimpe2/facki2, x3 = jimpe3/facki3)

ninja'osku	x1 announces x2 to audience x3 via expressive medium x4
		(x1 = ninja'o1/cusku1, x2=ninja'o2/cusku2, x3 = ninja'o3/cusku3
		 x4 = cusku4)

selfiljmi	x1 easily grasps fact/truth x2 about x3 
		(x2 is straightforward to x1) under conditions x4
		(x1 = frili2/jimpe1, x2 = frili1/jimpe2, x3 = jimpe3, 
		 x4 = frili3)

ci'armo'a	x1 is a set of notations including x2 in document x3 with
		structure x4
		(x1 = ciska2/morna1, x2 = morna2, x3 = ciska3, x4 = morna3)