gaits

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> > The gaits of 4-legged animal motions apply to
> > various degrees of running (you could say that walking is a specific
> > kind of running gait in a 4-legged animal).
>
>Questions here:  {xu le nu cadzu be fi remei cu nu bajra mu'i ma} (Is
>walking a kind of running gait for 2-legged animals, too, and why?)
>
>What's an example of a gait (say, "gallop"), other than by le'avla?  Why
>can't the different ways of running be handled with tanru or lujvo off
>{bajra}?

Out of my expertise.  I think I once heard that the 4 gaits of horses
were walk/canter/trot/gallop, and that the middle two had no obvious
counterpart for 2-leggeds.  There may be other gaits, for all I know,
and I guess you could call skipping a gait that is neither a walk nor a
run.

So I think of cadzu mostly in terms of simple motion on limbs.  Anything
more complex than that is probably some form of bajra.  And various
kinds of human walking I guess could be called "te bajra" - ever seen an
Olympic walker - that may be a walking gait but it isn't a normal one.

Or we can add a gait place to cadzu.  Painful but if needed ...

As for what to put in that place - I think some suggested lujvo for
gallop etc. at one point. fu'ivla (le'avla) are for sissies %^)

Here are the existing lujvo proposals in Nick's lujvo3 list:

>mijyxirbajra#middle+horse+run:trot, medium speed:$bajra $=xirma1 $bajra2
 $bajra3 $bajra4
>pipybajra#leap+run:gallop, skip:$bajra1 $=plipe1 $bajra2 $bajra3 $bajra4
>pipybajykla#leap+run+come:gallop, skip:$bajra1 $=plipe1 $=klama1 $klama2
 $klama3 $klama4 $klama5
>pipyvelbajra#leap+4th-place-of+run:gallop, skip:$bajra4 $bajra2 $bajra3 $bajra1
 $=plipe1
>snobajykla#slow+run+come:trot, jog:$bajra1 $=klama1 $=masno1 $klama2 $klama3
 $klama4 $bajra2 $bajra3 $bajra4
>sutxirkla#fast+horse+come:to gallop:$klama1 $=sutra1 $klama2 $klama3 $klama4
 $klama5 $=xirma1
>sutxirvelbajra#fast+horse+4th-place-of+run:gallop:$bajra4 $bajra3 $bajra2
 $bajra1 $=xirma1 $=sutra1
>xirdutybajykla#horse+opposite+run+come:trot:$bajra1 $=klama1 $=xirma1 $klama2
 $klama3 $klama4

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