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Subject: [lojban] Re: jinku fi la paludizm
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On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 07:29:22AM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> 
> --- John Cowan:
> > Jorge Llamb???as scripsit:
> > > Is the etymology of "paludism" known?
> > 
> > From Latin _paludus_ 'swamp'.  "Malaria", the Italian term, is
> > much more common in English, however.
>  
> --- Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.hn.org> wrote:
> > It's from Latin "palus", marsh (not to be confused with "palus",
> > stake, as in Palo Alto - the stem of the former is "palud-", of
> > the latter "pal-"). 
> 
> In that case, how about {cimtumterbi'a}?

Pierre's allergic to lujvo.  :-)

-Robin

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