[jbovlaste] Re: jbovlaste new entries

[Theodore Reed <ted.reed@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 07:23, Pierre Abbat<phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 July 2009 09:45:03 tijlan wrote:
>> What would be the gloss for "selgu'e"? "people"
>> (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/people) or "native"
>> (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/native)?
>
> I think "people" is better, but both English words are polysemous.
>
> Then there's "natmi". Is there any difference between gugde and natmi, besides
> that a gugde has a land?
>
> Would one say "la jugygug. gugde loi .uigru" or "la jugygug. gugde <some
> individual Uighur>"?

I'm pretty sure I've seen usage similar to "mi selgu'e le merko" or
"do selgu'e ma".

I'm also pretty sure that you could reasonably say either (of your two
examples).

>> As for "citizen", how about:
>> flaselgu'e (citizen; member of a state)
>> g2 is a citizen, a legally recognized member of g1 (country/state) in
>> g3 (land/territory) by law f1.
>
> If g2 is a people, then "flaselgu'ecmi", but the "fla-" is good.

.ie

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