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Re: [lojban] How obvious are my type-4's?
At 01:07 AM 10/5/01 -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
Here are 39 type-4 fu'ivla which I made up and put on the taxonomy page,
along with the translations. Without looking at the taxonomy page (or Alice
or the Bible - some appear there), tell me which are which.
phma
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djirafa
giraffe?
durkuli
fasxolarkto
filcina
flakrokoraka
flundero
I'll guess flounder only because I saw it in the English list below. I did
not get it without the list.
fragari
frambesi
glauka
glosina
gombesa
kantarelo
kapsiku
krataigo
krokuta
laktuka
manguso
mantode
merlanu
merluci
miptera
mlongena
mugdali
ornitorinku
something to do with birds, but no idea which.
perdice
persika
probably peach, but only because I just looked up the fruits in the prunus
subfamily and noted their etymologies. Then I also know that the word is
similar to the Russian for peach, but would not have know it was
fruit-related, which would have been necessary to recall that. Note that
etymologically, the peach is a "persian plum", and that is all that
"persika" is really invoking is "Persian".
platesa
polgosu
rikteropu
salmone
salmon
skomberu
sparago
asparagus?
stramoni
tarksako
tarsire
tcincila
chinchilla
trifoli
xarcufu
xilbate
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aardvark
almond
artichoke
asparagus
bug
chanterelle
chinchilla
clover
coelacanth
cormorant
dandelion
douroucouli
eggplant
fern
flounder
gibbon
giraffe
hake
halibut
hawthorn
hot pepper
hyena
jimsonweed
koala
lettuce
mackerel
mantis
mongoose
owl
partridge
peach
plaice
platypus
raspberry
salmon
strawberry
tarsier
tsetse fly
whiting
Note that the only ones I knew were ones that were borrowed in that form
into the languages I know.
lojbab
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