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Viktoro wrote:
 > I could not find "enlighten" in the lists...
 >
 > I thought of combining <gusni> "light" with <sanji> "conscious" as
 > in <gu'isanji>.
 >
 > Is that a good lujvo?
 >
 > Are there other possibilities?
 >
 > co'o mi'e viktor.


Using gusni would be unacceptable metaphor, I think.  It may be the case
that most (maybe all?) cultures use the KNOWING IS SEEING metaphor, but
that won't work in Lojban - you could probably get away with a
metaphorical use of gusni in a text (come to think of it, I've used that
same gismu in that way myself), but lujvo are more problematic.  Lujvo,
like tanru, are metaphorical by definition, but in a rather more
restricted sense of "metaphorical"; i.e. in using "gu'isanji" you are
saying that someone is aware of something in a way that is related to
photons.

Which lujvo you choose to make depends on what sense of the word 
"enlighten" you want. "sajgau" is a possibility - "cause to become aware".

robin.tr