[lojban-beginners] Re: fu'ivla, lebvla, le'avla

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Monday 04 May 2009 16:56:27 tijlan wrote:
> In the word list, "le'avla" is used to explain such words as "na'u"
> and "klerafsi". There is also "lebvla", as in "gimlebvla". "lebvla"
> itself is defined as "loan word", which is what "fu'ivla" supposedly
> means too.
>
> Do they really have the same meaning? If so, which one of them is more
> preferable?

"le'avla" and "lebvla" are the same word. "fu'ivla" is preferred to "lebvla", 
as xorxes said. They appear to have the same place structure according to 
jbofi'e, but I'm not sure whether the x4 of lebvla ("disposessed things", 
obviously the source language) is the same as the x4 of fu'ivla ("copied 
things", which may be the source word or the source language). "poo'ivla" 
(which is on the website) is a mixed-language coinage by someone who 
pooh-poohs fu'ivla.

Pierre