[lojban] Re: Help with "beak", please.

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 06:01:35PM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> --- Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > What about making a lujvo of "bartu moklu" for snout, and then
> > attaching "jgalu" to that?

I realized later that "jipno" is better than "bartu".

> Doesn't "snout" involve the nose too? 

Point.

> If so, then {nazbi} already contains the idea of protrusion, so
> {nazmo'u} could be "x1 is the snout/nose-mouth of x2". 

Indeed.

> beak: the bill of a bird; esp. the bill of a bird of prey adapted
> for striking and tearing.
> 
> bill: the jaws of a bird together with their horny covering.
> 
> xedja: x1 is a/the jaw [body-part] of x2
> 
> So {xedja} by itself could be used for bill/beak if you are
> talking about a bird. If it's not a bird you're talking about

It is not; it is in fact a non-existant being that happens to be
imagined to have a beak similar to a bird.

> so that you need to specify more the type of xedja, then maybe
> {ja'urxe'a} or {cakyxe'a} or maybe {cpismixe'a}. 

I think ja'urxe'a is most what I want, since I want focus on the
weapon-like-ness of the beak.  Thanks.

-Robin

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