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[lojban] Re: protein/albumin
At 03:47 PM 5/23/03 -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
There is a gismu {lanbi} which apparently serves for "protein", "albumin",
and
"egg white". The vocs are:
zulalun
albiumin
albumin
danbai
lavan
bilok;
in which "dan" is Chinese for "egg", "bilok" sounds like the Russian for
"white" with "-ok" added, and "lavan", though Hindi, sounds suspiciously like
the Hebrew for "white". I know German nutrition labels say "Eiweiß" for
"protein", but to me they are different: egg white is a part of an egg,
albumin is a protein in egg white, and there are other proteins, such as
myosin. So what words should we use to distinguish them?
Many possibilities. A biochemist should be deciding.
albumen - blabi lanbi or sovda blabi lanbi or sovda lanbi
myosin - matra lanbi
Also, the def in the gimste appears to be missing x3: x1 is a quantity of
protein/albumin of type x2 composed of amino acids (sequence/jo'u).
Typo noted for eventual submission to byfy.
lojbab
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