From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Tue Jan 06 10:22:16 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 06 Jan 2004 10:22:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.30) id 1AdvqF-0005Nf-1I; Tue, 06 Jan 2004 10:22:11 -0800 Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 10:22:11 -0800 To: Norma Jane Bumgarner Cc: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: leivla Message-ID: <20040106182211.GX22347@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: Norma Jane Bumgarner , lojban-list@lojban.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 6923 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 11:59:28AM -0600, Norma Jane Bumgarner wrote: > I am a writer hired by a family of German Hungarians to write > their history, and a Google search for a word used by one of the > older relatives led me to: > > http://www.lojban.org/jbovlaste/dict/leivla Heh. That's the online Lojban dictionary, which is a constructed language. leivla means, loosely, 'part of speech'. > The woman used the word "leivla" (plural "leivli") to refer to > something like a camisole, and I am trying to confirm the spelling > and identify the language from which the word comes, whether it is > Hungarian, Romanian, or the Swabian dialect spoken by the Germans > in Hungary. > > Is this something you can help me with, or perhaps point me to a > source for such information. No, sorry. I'm copying the main list in case anyone there knows, but I doubt it. -Robin -- Me: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Constant neocortex override is the only thing that stops us all from running out and eating all the cookies." -- Eliezer Yudkowsky http://www.lojban.org/ *** .i cimo'o prali .ui