[jbovlaste] Re: stuffed animal

[Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>]

what I meant by "doesn't have a dedicated word" was that we don't have a word that combines stuffed and bear..... though, I guess we actually do.  I've heard kids say things like "where is teddy".  Ok. so how about these for starters:

1) tisycribe

t1=c1 tisycribe fi'o seltisna t2 fi'o selbukpu x3
t1=c1 is a stuffed bear, stuffed with material t2 and made of fabric x3

2) tisyractu

t1=r1 tisyractu fi'o seltisna t2 fi'o selbukpu x3
t1=r1 is a stuffed rabbit, stuffed with material t2 and made of fabric x3

(and for the kids show being worked on)...... oh... nevermind, jbovlaste doesn't have an entry for moose.  What would the closest thing to a moose be?  Or should we define that as well?

comments?

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Arnt Richard Johansen <arj@nvg.org> wrote:

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 02:28:07PM -0400, Luke Bergen wrote:
> .uacai yes, tisna makes way more sense.  Mr Michael Turniansky threw me off
> *glare*.  I like tisna cribe/ractu/danfu/etc...
>
> So here's a question more relevant to the purpose of this forum.  Should a
> lujvo be created like tisycribe or just leave things as they are now and
> people will just say "tisna cribe" in the same way that english doesn't have
> a dedicated word for stuffed <animalX>?

I think English does have not one, but several, dedicated words.

The English Wikipedia mentions stuffed toy, stuffie, plush toy, soft toy, and cuddly toy.

Of the languages I understand, English is the only language in which the word for stuffed animal explicitly includes its stuffedness. Other languages use words based on its purpose (cuddling/hugging), or its composition (fabric).

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