Re: [lojban] Re: leivla

[Pierre Abbat <phma@webjockey.net>]

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

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