From lojban-out@lojban.org Mon Jun 07 12:07:45 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 40669 invoked from network); 7 Jun 2004 19:07:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m25.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 7 Jun 2004 19:07:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 7 Jun 2004 19:07:44 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.32) id 1BXPSS-0006EW-Ua for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Mon, 07 Jun 2004 12:06:57 -0700 Received: from dsl081-049-134.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([64.81.49.134] helo=chain.digitalkingdom.org) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.32) id 1BXPRd-0006Du-Pv; Mon, 07 Jun 2004 12:06:05 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 07 Jun 2004 12:06:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [216.189.121.177] (helo=blackcat.ixazon.lan) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.32) id 1BXPRP-0006DB-Vm for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 07 Jun 2004 12:05:52 -0700 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 42ED64962; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 19:04:40 +0000 (UTC) Organization: dis Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 15:04:38 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <200406051826.55184.phma@phma.hn.org> <40C42F85.16995.416D33@localhost> In-Reply-To: <40C42F85.16995.416D33@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200406071504.39570.phma@phma.hn.org> X-archive-position: 8060 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.hn.org X-list: lojban-list To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 64.81.49.134 X-eGroups-From: Pierre Abbat From: Pierre Abbat Reply-To: phma@phma.hn.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Fragrances X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 22511 On Monday 07 June 2004 03:04, Philip Newton wrote: > Greek uses "rigani". In Greek, rho at the beginning of a word has a rough breathing, though the breathings are silent in modern Greek. Dropping the initial vowel is also a modern Greek thing. So {xrigani} is a possibility, but I'm not sure if it's linguistically justified. > And Chinese apparently uses niu2zhi4, though I'm not sure what "the cow > arrives"(?) has to do with oregano. The cow arrives and bites the wax tadpole. It's probably a fu'ivla. If not, it's a homonym. phma -- li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa