[jbovlaste] Re: le'axru dinsauru

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> On Friday 05 March 2010 15:07:35 Michael Turniansky wrote:
>>   Although the great majority of animal gismu end in -u....
>
> bakni, banfi, bifce, cinfo, cinki, cipni, cribe, datka, finpe, gunse, ...
>
> mu'omi'e .pier.
>
  Actually, it's not even a plurality (unless you count in ninmu,
nanmu, cifnu).  Finishing off your whole list we have:

since, kanba, manti, xasli, xruki, cinki, respa, xirma, toldi, lanme,
mirli, xanto, kumte, smani, sfani, jipci, jalra, civla, labno,

gerku, ratcu, ractu, lorxu, mlatu, smacu, danlu, xarju, tirxu, curnu, mabru

a 6
e 6
i 12
o 3
u 11

  If we take out those that describe broad vertebrate groups  (danlu,
respa, banfi, cipni, finpe, mabru)  and non-quadrupeds, we have:
bakni, cinfo cribe kanba, xasli xirma, lanme, mirli, xanto, kumte,
smani, labno, gerku ratcu ractu lorxu mlatu smacu xarju tirxu

Which leads to:
a 2
e 3
i 4
o 3
u 8

    So you can see why I have the impression of -u appearing in a
disproportionate amount of animals, even though I was factually
incorrect in the way I dashed it off
               --gejyspa