[lojban] Re: kliru, sodna, navni, etc.

["Jorge Llambías" <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On 1/9/07, Stephen David Simmons <ssimmons@pcisys.net> wrote:
> jbovlaste has "kliru" <-> "chlorine" and "selkliru" <-> "halogen type".
> I don't see "selkliru" coming into common usage.  I have assumed that
> the appropriate words would be "kliru" <-> "chlorine" and "klirypoi" <->
> "halogen".  Perhaps, a lujvo should be used to enforce the default.

{klirypoi} can mean "halogen group", but not "halogen". {klirypoicmi}
would be "halogen":

 lo kliru cu klirypoicmi
 Chlorine is a halogen.

 lo li'orkliru cu klirypoicmi
 Fluorine is a halogen.

 lo xunkliru cu klirypoicmi
 Bromine is a halogen.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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