Received: from mail-ee0-f61.google.com ([74.125.83.61]:37210) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1SsF0M-0008WJ-Tf; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 08:20:46 -0700 Received: by eeit10 with SMTP id t10sf2211498eei.16 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 08:20:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-beenthere:received-spf:x-authenticated:x-provags-id:message-id :date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-y-gmx-trusted:x-original-sender:x-original-authentication-results :reply-to:precedence:mailing-list:list-id:x-google-group-id :list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender:list-subscribe :list-unsubscribe:content-type; bh=gOpkds/ZIOw9Oq3Yq2QfuLGjyGtksw3GQkJldEp73so=; b=c0wjF6iGcVH6VxTFJJzDZKQnqp2aAncXpXJ119bcpDqHKDzjEUnJN5ftqoX+V//Pce R/RClxIGN81tcU9cVfaIw7ub1k4KZsu9uUg64sIS0e6e8gsws8MOareg5AtypHrnDGNj NLeC0KAYiWKW/GkuubI7Fmed1Csb7Jk3iWGPE= Received: by 10.216.141.25 with SMTP id f25mr129309wej.32.1342797625221; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 08:20:25 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.180.96.67 with SMTP id dq3ls654635wib.1.gmail; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 08:20:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.180.82.226 with SMTP id l2mr4007496wiy.1.1342797624379; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 08:20:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.180.82.226 with SMTP id l2mr4007495wiy.1.1342797624364; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 08:20:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net. [213.165.64.23]) by gmr-mx.google.com with SMTP id 46si7092167eed.1.2012.07.20.08.20.24; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 08:20:24 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of seladwa@gmx.de designates 213.165.64.23 as permitted sender) client-ip=213.165.64.23; Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 20 Jul 2012 15:20:24 -0000 Received: from p57A0901F.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO [192.168.1.33]) [87.160.144.31] by mail.gmx.net (mp069) with SMTP; 20 Jul 2012 17:20:24 +0200 X-Authenticated: #54293076 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+al7s6d5KaZxry7Jc05GLRURZ9L51+zyLGLu1KkY Yt5ZyVa37wIEGu Message-ID: <50097736.1050409@gmx.de> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:20:22 +0200 From: selpa'i User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Question: origins of "spitaki" References: In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Original-Sender: seladwa@gmx.de X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of seladwa@gmx.de designates 213.165.64.23 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=seladwa@gmx.de Reply-To: lojban@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban@googlegroups.com; contact lojban+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 1004133512417 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------030909030007060202030700" X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) X-Spam_score: -0.7 X-Spam_score_int: -6 X-Spam_bar: / This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------030909030007060202030700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Am 20.07.2012 17:13, schrieb Cyril Slobin: > Can anyone explain me the etymology of "spitaki"? From which language > is it borrowed? Not obvious for me, sorry. Parrots are from the order of Psittaciformes. Using part before -formes, we are left with "psittaci". To turn this into a stage-4 fu'ivla, we can't use *{psitaki}, because {ps} is not valid. Therefore, we switch ps to sp and get {spitaki} = parrot. mu'o mi'e la selpa'i -- .i pau mi me ma .i pa mai ko mi jungau la'e di'u .i ba bo mi va'o lo nu nelci lo nu me ma kau cu barkla .i va'o lo nu na nelci cu denpa ti lo nu mi drata -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lojban" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban?hl=en. --------------030909030007060202030700 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Am 20.07.2012 17:13, schrieb Cyril Slobin:
Can anyone explain me the etymology of "spitaki"? From which language is it borrowed? Not obvious for me, sorry.

Parrots are from the order of Psittaciformes. Using part before -formes, we are left with "psittaci". To turn this into a stage-4 fu'ivla, we can't use *{psitaki}, because {ps} is not valid. Therefore, we switch ps to sp and get {spitaki} = parrot.

mu'o mi'e la selpa'i

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.i pau mi me ma .i pa mai ko mi jungau la'e di'u 
.i ba bo mi va'o lo nu nelci lo nu me ma kau cu barkla 
.i va'o lo nu na nelci cu denpa ti lo nu mi drata

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