On Dec 1, 2012, at 5:55 PM, Pierre Abbat <
phma@bezitopo.org> wrote:
> On Saturday, December 01, 2012 14:40:29 Annie wrote:
>> What are veljvo and rafci?
>
> A veljvo is the compound phrase that a compound word is made from. For
> instance, the veljvo of "larlermorna" is "larcu lerfu morna". In Lojban one
> would say "lu larcu lerfu morna li'u veljvo fo zo larlermorna", since "vel-"
> (which is the rafsi of "ve") switches x1 and x4.
>
> A rafsi is a combining form, also called a bound morpheme. "lar-" is a rafsi
> of "larcu".
>
> A fu'ivla is a borrowed word. Often "fu'ivla" is used to refer to the Lojban
> word forms used for borrowed words, even if the "word" being discussed (such
> as "agbagba", one of several wordoids made out of a few different letters) is
> meaningless. A word of fu'ivla form whose source is something other than a
> foreign language is called a zi'evla, e.g. "vonpaso", which is from Lojban
> number words.
>
> Pierre
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