Re: [bpfk] Month Names (WAS: official cmavo form)

[Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>]

On Saturday, January 17, 2015 22:51:12 Mike S. wrote:
> je'e galfi lo mi cipra liste lu
> 
> janvari febvari martime prilime magjome junxame julzeme .avgusto septebe
> .oktobe novmebe dekmere
> 
> li'u

Sounds pretty good to me.

On Saturday, January 17, 2015 17:49:29 Gleki Arxokuna wrote:
> that {pa'amsi} series could be further improved e.g. {gaimsi} or {gairmese}
> to free us from rafsi that are so hard to memorize and allowing to use the
> non-rafsi form instead.
> Note that {gai'amsi} doesnt differ much in the number of syllables from
> {gai zei masti} if " ai' " isn't pronounced as [ajh] but as [aih]. Although
> it shouldn't be {masti} there since the latter means something different.

{gai'amsi} doesn't have a consonant cluster in the first five letters after 
removing y'y and ybu.

As to {celma'i} etc., I have thought for some years that they should be the 
names of signs of the zodiac, not calendar months.

Pierre
-- 
li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa

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