Re: [jbovlaste] berbere, berberi

[Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>]

On Thursday, January 24, 2013 21:06:43 Gleki Arxokuna wrote:
> Is it allowed to have several fui'vla that differ in the ending only? What
> about rafsi for them then?

You can't make a rafsi for "berbere" by dropping the final vowel, because that 
would mean "north-north" (as in "bersunberberberti", which is N5°37'30'E). So 
having different words "berbere", "berbero", and "berberi" is not a problem.

You can't make a rafsi for "skalduna" (Basque) by dropping the final vowel and 
put it at the start of a lujvo, because the resulting word (e.g. 
"*skaldunymapku") is a lujvo-like slinku'i. But you can put such a rafsi in 
the middle of a word, as long as there is 'y' both before and after it.

You can make a rafsi for all type-3 fu'ivla, and various others, that end in a 
single vowel by dropping it. So you can say "glaukyne'o", "bakrtyjipcyna'i" 
(though Buffalo wings have nothing to do with buffaloes), or "klitykolmba".

And as in the PEG, you can make a lujvo from all of the above fu'ivla by 
adding "'y" to them and following with a rafsi.

Pierre
-- 
Jews use a lunisolar calendar; Muslims use a solely lunar calendar.


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