From phma@webjockey.net Wed Mar 17 16:32:53 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 21662 invoked from network); 18 Mar 2004 00:32:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.167) by m11.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 18 Mar 2004 00:32:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO blackcat.ixazon.lan) (208.150.110.21) by mta6.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 18 Mar 2004 00:32:52 -0000 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 925C144F9; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 00:32:21 +0000 (UTC) Organization: dis To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 19:32:20 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200403171932.20862.phma@webjockey.net> X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 208.150.110.21 From: Pierre Abbat Subject: leleshwa X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=92712300 X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 21699 I recently found out about an essential oil and would like your opinion about what to call it in Lojban. Here are some possibilities: lelcua, from Masai leleshwa, which is what it's usually called in English. tarxonanto, from the genus name Tarchonanthus. Someone explained this as meaning "funeral flower", but he's not sure why. klambati, from Swahili mkalambati. kanferbosu, from Afrikaans kanferbos "camphorbush". phma -- .i toljundi do .ibabo mi'afra tu'a do .ibabo damba do .ibabo do jinga .icu'u la ma'atman.