[jbovlaste] Re: Does such a word exist ...

[David Zhang <david290@gmail.com>]

What if the auther means all of them one by one? What words do you suggest?

la klama'u ricfoi

2009/10/10, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>:
> I guess it would depend on what you mean "begining of a thing".  As in
> (depending on how you look at it) the bumper could be the "beginning" of a
> car (it's the front of it).  Or "GO!" would be the "start" of a race.  Or,
> the beginning of the car could be when it finally came together in the
> factory.  The english ambiguity with the word "beginning" is confusing me
> with what you're asking for.
>
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Michael Turniansky
> <mturniansky@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> > On Friday 09 October 2009 11:40:15 Frank wrote:
>> >> to indicate a marker, such as "this marks the beginning of
>> such-and-such"?
>> >>  I can find several words which are markers in and of themselves (cu,
>> doi,
>> >> ga'o, soi, etc.).  However, I haven't been able to find a word which
>> simply
>> >> means 'marker' in the same sense.  A similar question has arisen in My
>> >> vocabulary search for a word indicating a physical equivalent, such as
>>
>>   I would think something in the sinxa or tcita family would be what
>> you are looking for....
>>
>>
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