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[jbovlaste] Re: fu'ivla for liquors



On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Arnt Richard Johansen <arj@nvg.org> wrote:
> 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.

The first sentence there is true, obviously. The fu'ivla appears to
nonetheless fail a sort of backwards slinku'i test, in that ".uiski
kabri" falls apart into ".ui skikabri," and "skikabri" is a valid
lujvo.