Would "le cadzu ni'a lo lunra" work?
On Sunday, June 2, 2013 1:51:11 PM UTC-4, Daeldir .lurni'acadz. 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.