Re: [lojban-beginners] taxonomic .a descriptive

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>
>> > wrote:
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>> >> All three, including having all of them for some living things, such
>> >> as "arxokuna" (from some rindo bangu), "prokiono", and "lumge'u"
>> >> (although
>> >> it's not in the dog family, nor in the bear family, despite the similar
>> >> German word).
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>> > I have absolutely no idea what animal any of those words refer to.
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>>  Try this -- "se firgai ke victerlu'i lebna"
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>>          --gejyspa
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> "masked trash-taker"? Racoon?

  Yup... "arxokuna" is from  thePowhatan word that we get the English
"raccoon" from  (probably ~araxun), and "prokiono"  and "lumge'u" is
from  the binomial Procyon lotor -- "protodog washer"

               --gejyspa

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