Re: [lojban] Re: leivla

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

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 11:26:15AM +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> 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 :-)

Actually, I just guessed it from the parts without bothering to look
it up, for the reasons Jim states.

-Robin

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