From jim@gonzul.net Wed Jan 07 14:27:47 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 07 Jan 2004 14:27:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from cat.ourshack.com ([212.74.28.153] ident=exim) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1AeM9N-0002t2-Bf for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2004 14:27:41 -0800 Received: from localhost.ourshack.com ([127.0.0.1] helo=taoying.local ident=jim) by cat.ourshack.com with asmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.24) id 1AeM9J-000OOO-Vy for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2004 22:27:38 +0000 Subject: [lojban] Re: leivla From: Jim Cheetham To: lojban-list@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <200401062254.34789.phma@webjockey.net> References: <20040106182211.GX22347@digitalkingdom.org> <200401062254.34789.phma@webjockey.net> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1073514375.13465.192.camel@taoying> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 11:26:15 +1300 X-Mailer: GNU Anubis email postprocessor v3.9.93 X-Image-Url: http://jim.gonzul.org/emailimg/jim@gonzul.net X-Subliminal-Message: Everything I tell you is false X-archive-position: 6929 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jim@gonzul.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 16:54, Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Tuesday 06 January 2004 13:22, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > 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 def in jbovlaste is "word describing a group, superordinate". Are you > thinking of "vlalei"? I though the definition was close enough, considering that the original enquirer was looking for European words meaning "clothes" - to be told that they've found a Lojban word meaning "something that could not be confused with clothes" is answer enough :-) -djim