[lojban-beginners] Re: About my name

[jeniffermaben@gmail.com]

If you are looking name meaning, this website will be useful: http://www.babynology.com

On Sunday, June 2, 2013 11:21:11 PM UTC+5:30, daeldir . wrote:
> Daeldir is not my real name (yes, you guessed right :-P). It's an alias I created from nothing when I was young.
>
> However, in my head, Daeldir means something. I always associated those sounds with “walk beneath the moon”, or “walking in the moonlight” (google translate gave me that last one ;-)).
>
> And I like the idea of having a meaningful name in lojban, like native americans do. 
>
> So, to train myself in speaking lojban, I tried to translate that meaning in lojban.
>
> First, how I would explain this meaning in lojban:
>
> {lo nu ma kau cnita lo lunra cu cadzu}
>  → “The one (I know who) that is under the moon, walk”
>
> Using a tanru:
>
> {lunra cnita cadzu}
>  → walk kind of (under kind of moon)
>  → Something that walk, in an “under” maneer, and the “under” as something to do with the moon
>
> Which would give the following lujvo:
>
> {lurni'adzu}
>
> Finally, while my name now has a meaning, I want it to be a name: it means something, but what it means is not what I am, it's just a label. So, I would turn it into a cmevla: 
>
> {.lurni'adzus.} or (which I prefer) {.lurni'adz.}
>
> I didn't read the wave lessons all the way, yet. But I feel I can begin to express some meanings, I can “baby talk”.
>
> The reason I post it there is that I want to “exercise” myself. I need someone that can criticize my work. Having the lessons is not sufficient to know if what I do, I do wrong.
>
> The three question I'm wondering about are:
>
> Is {lo nu ma kau cnita lo lunra cu cadzu} a good “explanation” of the meaning of my name?
>
> Is {lurni'adzu} a valid lujvo, and is it ok to make a lujvo not for words, but to create “meaningful names”?
>
> Finally, have you any suggestions for improving my sentences/words, keeping in mind I'm for now at a really low level in Lojban?
>
> mu'o mi'e la .daeldir.
>
> Or,
>
> mu'o mi'e la .lurni'adz.

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