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Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Thursday, May 02, 2013 18:43:32 Craig Daniel wrote:
>> xruba includes both rhubarb (sometimes used in fruitlike ways) and
>> buckwheat; neither is botanically a grain, but it's certainly true
>> that the culinary uses of buckwheat are entirely grain-like, leading
>> to breadlike products including the aforementioned pancakes and soba
>> noodles.
>
> "xruba" is the common name of Polygonaceae. Buckwheat is gruxruba or xrixruba.
> Even though it's not gurni, I think it's okay to call pasta made of buckwheat
> "grusko" or "grusri".
>
> There are, though pastas that aren't skori or dasri, such as orzo, couscous
> (not to be confused with xusxusu, which is vetiver/khuskhus), and alphabet
> pasta. What should we call those?

The wonders of lujvo is that they mean what they are defined to mean, 
and are not restricted to their etymology.  If we want pexsri to include 
orzo, then it does.

I don't have sufficient knowledge of what distinguishes orzo or couscous 
from any other kind of pasta to suggest a more specific lujvo.  The 
dictionary says "rice-shaped" which would give a modifier to pexsri. 
Couscous might merely be friko(fi'or-) pexsri.

lojbab

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