Re: [lojban] Re: leivla

[Jim Cheetham <jim@gonzul.net>]

On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 16:54, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 January 2004 13:22, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > > 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 def in jbovlaste is "word describing a group, superordinate". Are you 
> thinking of "vlalei"?

I though the definition was close enough, considering that the original
enquirer was looking for European words meaning "clothes" - to be told
that they've found a Lojban word meaning "something that could not be
confused with clothes" is answer enough :-)

-djim