From phma@webjockey.net Tue Jan 06 16:58:59 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 552 invoked from network); 7 Jan 2004 00:58:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.167) by m17.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 7 Jan 2004 00:58:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO blackcat.ixazon.lan) (208.150.110.21) by mta6.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 7 Jan 2004 00:58:58 -0000 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 682E043C3; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 00:58:55 +0000 (UTC) Organization: dis To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 19:58:45 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <20040106182211.GX22347@digitalkingdom.org> In-Reply-To: <20040106182211.GX22347@digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401061958.47181.phma@webjockey.net> X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 208.150.110.21 From: Pierre Abbat Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: leivla X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=92712300 X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 21406 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 mu'omi'e pier. -- .i toljundi do .ibabo mi'afra tu'a do .ibabo damba do .ibabo do jinga .icu'u la ma'atman.