On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 07:10:27AM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Friday, June 21, 2013 23:38:31 la arxokuna wrote:
> > "<round> in the first meaning" acc. to Wiktionary
> > "Circular or cylindrical; having a circular cross-section in one direction."
> >
> > Do we have a word for this? cukla and bolci are too specific.
That's not one concept, so why have one word for it?
I'm not too sure, but I think {cukla ja slanu} expresses what you want.
> I suggest "cukpa'otai" or "xiltai", the second after thinking of the etymology
> of "round", which is "rotundus" from "rota".
{cukpa'otai} should be fine as it just translates the definition.
> Do you have any suggestion for "round" in the sense of "round number" (which
> has two subsenses)?
Could you explain the two subsenses? I only see one very hard to explain concept.
> There's nothing circular or wheel-like about the numbers
> 1700 and 2147483648.
mi'e la .van. mu'o
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