Re: [lojban-beginners] Lojban Lujvo - My First Attempts

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

On Tuesday 14 August 2012 18:28:30 cariar.jermanis wrote:
> Coi ro do,
>
> I am just learning Lojban. For my first post, I am going to list some lujvo
> (compound words, from my understanding) that I have made to express certain
> English words in Lojban. Here is what I have contrived so far:
>
> *Animals:*
>
>    - pangolin - ?*mantyctimabru (? + mantyctimabru; scaly anteater) *Here I
>    am trying to figure out what Lojbanic word would mean "scale" in the
> sense of an integumentary flake, as on a reptile, a fish, or on the wings
> of a butterfly or moth.

"scale" is "kapyplita", but Turnip's suggestion of "karda" makes sense too; 
I'd say "kapkarda" rather than the other way around. But for "pangolin" I'd 
say "pangolino" (which is a fu'ivla, not a lujvo) or "gurmabru" (translating 
from Malay).

>    - tadpole - cifpipybanfi (cif, rafsi of cifnu + pipybanfi; baby frog),
>    on the model of "ciftoldi" (caterpillar).
>    - froglet - naru'epipybanfi (naru'e + pipybanfi; almost-frog)
>    - newly-metamorphosed frog* - ci'opipybanfi (ci'o, rafsi of citno +
>    pipybanfi; young frog) *What I like to call a "baby frog."

I'd say "cifybanfi", "ci'orbanfi", and "ma'urbanfi", as long as the context 
makes it clear whether I'm talking about frogs or salamanders. There's also 
the "aclotli".

> *Ecology:*
>
>    - extinction (in the sense of hunting to or intentionally causing
>    extinction) - mulcatra (mul, rafsi of mulno + catra; complete kill)
>    - extinction (in the sense of dying out naturally or indirectly caused
>    by human activity) - mulnunmro (mul, rafsi of mulno  + nunmro)

I say "jutmro" for "extinct".

> Note that I have consulted the jbovlaste for the words (and Wiktionary for
> "mantyctimabru"). I have probably made some mistakes here - please let me
> know what you all think!
>
> Tu'u,
> cariar.jermanis.

You mean "mu'o mi'e". "tu'u" is the terminator of "tu'e", which is used to 
group together several sentences.

Pierre

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