[lojban-beginners] teeth was: Lojban names of weekdays

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Saturday 09 October 2010 20:20:40 Jorge Llambías wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Lindar <lindarthebard@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> pavde'i
> >> relde'i
> >> etc.
> >
> > I am definitely not naming the day of the week various quantities of
> > teeth.
>
> Those could actually work as names for central incisor, lateral
> incisor, canine, first molar, second molar, ... I don't know if there
> is a standard ordering for those, probably there is.

Most mammals have different kinds of teeth, up to four kinds: incisor 
(ka'arde'i), canine (gerde'i), premolar (crazalde'i), and molar (zalde'i). 
There are numbering systems for human teeth, which can be used for all 
fi'orjoizdo smani but no others (to lo fi'uvosi'e be lo bemjoitco smani cu se 
crazalde'i ba'e ci da toi), and a numbering system for all heterodont 
mammals. In the system for all heterodont mammals, premolars are numbered 
ending at 4, rather than starting at 1. I suspect the reason has to do with 
homology of teeth.

Pierre
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