From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Tue Jan 06 17:08:55 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 06 Jan 2004 17:08:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.30) id 1Ae2Bl-0004om-Vj for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2004 17:08:49 -0800 Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 17:08:49 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: leivla Message-ID: <20040107010849.GA22347@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20040106182211.GX22347@digitalkingdom.org> <200401061958.47181.phma@webjockey.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200401061958.47181.phma@webjockey.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 6925 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 07:58:45PM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Tuesday 06 January 2004 13:22, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > 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. > > la'a bangnromina .i zoi my. -k .my. rafsi le sormeivla fo le > magjaro magjaro ki'a Oh, the original poster's e-mail is njb@myntoddler.com if you want to let her know anything about this. -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