Re: [lojban-beginners] Ordering rafsi in a lujvo

[Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>]

On Saturday, January 24, 2015 20:34:29 volcpitar wrote:
> I looked up "house" and "apartment" on Jbovlaste and found "zdadi'u" and
> "kumyzda."  Why would "zdadi'u" not be more appropriate for "apartment
> building"?  How can the order of the rafsi in the two terms be inconsistent?

lo zdadi'u is a house building. It can contain one house or many, but it's not 
a factory building, a bird's nest, or a cave. lo kumyzda is a house which is a 
room in a building. An apartment is a section of a building, with its own 
door, used as a house. Normally it is divided into rooms, but "kumyzda" 
interprets the whole connected mass of rooms as one room.

Pierre
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