[lojban-beginners] Re: A priest, a rabbi and an Indian chief walk into a bar...

["Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Yoav Nir <yoav.nir@gmail.com> wrote:
> I searched jbovlaste and could not find an Indian Chief, or even an American
> Indian or native american. I could make up a big tanru with
> leader+aboriginal+american or even condense it into a lujvo, but then I'd
> get something like ralmerliryraixa'u -
> leader+American+(early+superlative+dwell).  Surely there's something better.

lo .indio ralju?

I woudn't restrict it to merko indians though.

> Priest has a different word in every natural language, so I guess it needs
> its own word in lojban. But what xisjdaca'i? Christian religious leader? How
> did we get from a 5 letter word in English to this?

"Priest" can be more general than Chrstian priest. I would go with a
tanru: lo xriso jdaca'i.

> For Rabbi, every language uses a variation of the Hebrew original. The
> original is "rav" meaning master or teacher, but in most languages, even
> sometimes in Hebrew, people use a variation on "rabi" meaning "my rav" (very
> much like sensei in Japanese). So is it possible to just use rabi as a
> class-4 fu'ivla? Maybe only a class-3 fu'ivla. But what gismu should I add
> to "rabi"? It is a job, so maybe gunkrabi?  But a rabbi is also a teacher,
> so maybe ctucrabi?

gunkrabi and ctucrabi are both lujvo: gun-krabi, ctu-crabi, even
though krabi and crabi are not actual gismu they are of gismu form.
The type-3 fuhivla always require an r-hyphen (which in this case
becomes an n-hyphen): gunknrabi and ctucnrabi. Or, if you use the gun-
rafsi, you need the l-hyphen: gunlrabi. Or you could use lo xebro
jdaca'i.

mu'o mi'e xorxes