[lojban-beginners] Re: Dictionary output

[Minimiscience <minimiscience@gmail.com>]

de'i li 27 pi'e 06 pi'e 2009 la'o fy. Johan Pretorius .fy. cusku zoi skamyxatra.
> What does clanyvalsi mean? According to the rules given by xorxes, it breaks
> down into clan-y-valsi, right?  Except I can't find the rafsi clan anywhere,
> the closest I get is cla, from the gismu clani (long).  If this is the right
> one, howcome does it have the extra "n"?
.skamyxatra

The word lists only give the short {rafsi} (those with three letters, not
counting apostrophes) for words; every {gismu} also has two long {rafsi}:
itself (only valid at the end of a {lujvo}) and itself minus the final vowel
(only valid at the beginning or middle of a {lujvo} when followed by a 'y').
Hence, "{clanyvalsi}" does mean "long word."

I created a webpage for creating & splitting apart {lujvo}, which can be found
at <http://jwodder.freeshell.org/lojban/jvozba.cgi>.

> Am I right in surmising that the rules of morphology will be such that a
> rafsi can never be confused for a cmavo?

Yes

> And what is this "Book"?  It sounds interesting, like I should read it at
> some stage :-)

*The Complete Lojban Language* by John Woldemar Cowan, the official description
of every aspect of Lojban other than the word lists.  It can be read for free
online at
<http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=The+Lojban+Reference+Grammar>.

mu'omi'e .kamymecraijun.

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