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[jbovlaste] Re: stuffed animal
2010/7/21 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Arnt Richard Johansen <arj@nvg.org> wrote:
>
> One problem with "tisna" is that it doesn't mean "stuffed" but
> "becomes stuffed", it refers to the change of state, not the state. At
> least if we take the gi'uste definition seriously. It would be more
> useful to have a basic word for stuffed than for becoming stuffed,
> because the change of state is easier to derive from the final state
> (by adding -bi'o) than viceversa.
'Tis true :-). But we could do tistcini if we wanted to be
persnickety about it.
BTW, a moose is in the gismu of mirli, but if we wanted to be
particular, I guess the almost unpronounceable mirlrxalse would do...
--gejyspa