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On Sunday 02 March 2003 17:02, robin wrote:
> Jordan DeLong wrote:
> > Is there data for this stuff somewhere?
>
> http://www.lojban.org/publications/etymology.html

Given the .voc files mentioned on that page, you can run this script and it'll 
tell you (for most gismu - it fails on "vensa") the words in the six 
languages.

"vensa" is obviously from Russian "vesna", but what are the other words that 
caused the consonants to be switched?

phma

-- 
.i toljundi do .ibabo mi'afra tu'a do
.ibabo damba do .ibabo do jinga
.icu'u la ma'atman.
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Content-Type: application/x-shellscript; name="voc"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="voc"

#!/bin/sh
LINE=`grep -n $1 lojban.voc|cut -f 1 -d :`
if [ x$LINE == x ]
then
  echo No such word
  exit
fi
head -$LINE arabic.voc |tail -1
head -$LINE english.voc |tail -1
head -$LINE spanish.voc |tail -1
head -$LINE chinese.voc |tail -1
head -$LINE hindi.voc |tail -1
head -$LINE russian.voc |tail -1

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