From philip.newton@gmail.com Sun Jan 16 07:24:28 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 16 Jan 2005 07:24:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.200]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CqCGJ-0000WI-Sc for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 07:24:20 -0800 Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id a36so164987rnf for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 07:23:48 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=aRIm9YLrpfgzlj6mLabSHjqhcun/md3zReEFcAHAXgSmlBYF82ThR/sr96KhNLUKr/bMFY9Mjz4d70MlcS2hSJIyXkwfygYO3i+iLruyNBW1G7oiXQE3bh4tEn+DcPmEbpK9S/e4XTRGRw3treh/oTZWALhkQ0XfeEic2jKVRtM= Received: by 10.39.2.70 with SMTP id e70mr5689rni; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 07:23:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.208.61 with HTTP; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 07:23:48 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <537d06d00501160723127fa2ca@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 16:23:48 +0100 From: Philip Newton To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Octopus? In-Reply-To: <20050115202824.GH10940@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII References: <20050115202824.GH10940@chain.digitalkingdom.org> X-archive-position: 9273 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: philip.newton@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 12:28:24 -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > Should octopus be a lujvo or a linnean fu'ivla? I'd say fu'ivla of some sort. > In either case, what word would you use? .oktopoda, perhaps? Based on the good ol' "oblique form of the Greek/Latin word" method. Or curnrxoktapoda, perhaps, if you want a stage-3. (Though I'd be tempted to make it curnrxtapodi, based on the Modern Greek form.) mu'o mi'e .filip. -- Philip Newton