From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Jan 14 23:09:16 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:09:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JEfv8-0003B1-1e for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:09:16 -0800 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.158]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JEfuz-0003AI-8W for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:09:13 -0800 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e12so2395621fga.0 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:08:58 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:from:to:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:subject:date:references:x-mailer; bh=P7fl480wnH39HF9ljjzFKgTROSZn7agEYBxgFS1iZ2U=; b=kGREa6NHx+bG6bRlG7ecyGkLroex5FmMf114O9lUiYr0UlEuR1VFHAOd2DbNg2g9MR8KurBX1DjCgYEYyPlbDANnuMgWfESSGeoAmF11LbkAZCbeQ8KB/Q1oahzgXumLfp7VpjI0I/dYDSLFldTnTTH2QcRcllYWDYkVkFCL7BI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:from:to:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:subject:date:references:x-mailer; b=wVR6AUN2S5+TzFjuKRBNLYMY5ZyYuLzI+Qw1Gcxcq1hmT5HLGq2lU9zDpGxvU4kIJmJNz4UdelkzWI7ethuLg961ZNd6gxmXrhcUTJuKR+JQNU6FsC135/gOFL+RCb//QFXVsySRAJdXn8lMWLdVWyx8qhfhDCDq6s2Ntrq9JZc= Received: by 10.78.132.2 with SMTP id f2mr8437210hud.19.1200380938253; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:08:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from dyn34-75.checkpoint.com ( [194.29.34.75]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 30sm3614156hue.8.2008.01.14.23.08.56 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:08:57 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <0104481C-CDFD-4AF9-B9D2-377272EF1212@gmail.com> From: Yoav Nir To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <20080114130053.03emnhvs0gscg8sw@webmail.ixkey.info> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v915) Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: {caxmati}? Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:55:42 +0200 References: <2f91285f0801141225i3b6b8483ue77881eadfc2eca0@mail.gmail.com> <20080114130053.03emnhvs0gscg8sw@webmail.ixkey.info> X-Spam-Score: -0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 229 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: yoav.nir@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners It's pronounced like {caxmat} in Hebrew also. That could be also derived from Russian, as chess was a game of Russian immigrants more than the other groups. Earlier Hebrew writings had a different name for the game, something like {ickuki} The interesting thing is that the name is derived much like a lojban lujvo, from {cax} meaning king and {mat} meaning dead. On Jan 14, 2008, at 11:00 PM, mungojelly@ixkey.info wrote: > Quoting Vid Sintef : > >> What does {caxmati} consist of? > > zo caxmati fukpyvalsi .i la uikipedias. cusku lu lo lojbo valsi po'u > zo caxmati cu se krasi lo rukybau gi'e se finti la pier. abat. > li'u .i ruskybangu .ua to la'e zoi zoi. Russian language .zoi toi > > mu'o mi'e la bret. > > > >