Re: [lojban] Re: leivla

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 07:58:45PM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 January 2004 13:22, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 11:59:28AM -0600, Norma Jane Bumgarner
> > wrote:
> > > I am a writer hired by a family of German Hungarians to write
> > > their history, and a Google search for a word used by one of
> > > the older relatives led me to:
> > >
> > > http://www.lojban.org/jbovlaste/dict/leivla
> >
> > Heh.  That's the online Lojban dictionary, which is a
> > constructed language.  leivla means, loosely, 'part of speech'.
> >
> > > The woman used the word "leivla" (plural "leivli") to refer to
> > > something like a camisole, and I am trying to confirm the
> > > spelling and identify the language from which the word comes,
> > > whether it is Hungarian, Romanian, or the Swabian dialect
> > > spoken by the Germans in Hungary.
> > >
> > > Is this something you can help me with, or perhaps point me to
> > > a source for such information.
> >
> > No, sorry.  I'm copying the main list in case anyone there
> > knows, but I doubt it.
> 
> la'a bangnromina .i zoi my. -k .my. rafsi le sormeivla fo le
> magjaro

magjaro ki'a

Oh, the original poster's e-mail is njb@myntoddler.com if you want
to let her know anything about this.

-Robin

-- 
Me: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/  ***   I'm a *male* Robin.
"Constant neocortex override is the only thing that stops us all
from running out and eating all the cookies."  -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
http://www.lojban.org/             ***              .i cimo'o prali .ui