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[jbovlaste] Re: fu'ivla for liquors
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:36:18PM -0500, Craig Daniel wrote:
> .uiski is invalid (because ski is the rafsi for skicu, so a cup of
> whiskey would become a delightful description-cup),
{uiski} is not a valid lujvo because *-ui- doesn't have rafsi form. So {uiski} is in fact a well-formed type 4 fu'ivla.
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