From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Jan 07 14:45:19 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 07 Jan 2004 14:45:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.30) id 1AeMQM-0003KV-6t for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2004 14:45:14 -0800 Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 14:45:14 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: leivla Message-ID: <20040107224514.GC1878@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20040106182211.GX22347@digitalkingdom.org> <200401062254.34789.phma@webjockey.net> <1073514375.13465.192.camel@taoying> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1073514375.13465.192.camel@taoying> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 6931 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 Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 11:26:15AM +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote: > 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 :-) Actually, I just guessed it from the parts without bothering to look it up, for the reasons Jim states. -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