Re: [bpfk] spa'i?

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 01:21:42PM -0300, Jorge Llambías wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Robin Lee Powell
>> <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > Red book says:
>> >
>> >  (It is possible to have fu'ivla like "spa'i” that are five
>> > letters  long, but they must have " ' ”; no gismu contains
>> > " ' ”.)
>>
>> I seem to recall "spa'i" was a typo for "spra'i", since " ' "
>> didn't count as a letter in that context.
>
> Well, then the text would have to be:
>
>  (It is possible to have fu'ivla like "srpa'i” that are six letters
>   long, but they must have " ' ”; no gismu contains " ' ”.)
>
> which seems pretty pointless, since 6 letters isn't like a gismu
> anyway.

If " ' " doesn't count as a letter, then "spra'i" has five letters. In
other words, "spra'i" has CCCVV form, and this is a valid fu'ivla
form, as long as the vowels are separated by " ' " so you can have
penultimate stress.

> Is there a version of this worth inserting back in, or should I just
> not bother?

There are several other valid five-letter fu'ivla forms: CCVVV, VCCVV,
VCCCV and VVCCV, and those don't need apostrophe, so I would omit the
comment.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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