[jbovlaste] Re: buckwheat

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 09:38:17PM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> "buckwheat" is a gloss of three words: {xruba}, {xrixruba}, and
> {gruxruba}. The first refers to any member of the family
> Polygonaceae; the second and third refer specifically to
> buckwheat, and are synonyms. {xruba} currently is the best guess
> for "buckwheat", and has no gloss for "sorrel" or "rhubarb", which
> have their own words ({stanyxruba} and {pezyxruba} IIRR; neither
> is in jbovlaste). So someone looking up "buckwheat" gets the
> general term {xruba}, and someone looking up "sorrel" or "rhubarb"
> gets nothing. How should this be fixed?

Ideally, by adding the two words you listed above with sorrel and
rhubarb as the gloss words.

Perhaps I'm missing the problem?

-Robin

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