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Re: tertirxu



> There are only two animals that got weird place structures.
> One is the tiger. Can anyone guess what the other is without
> looking it up?

lanme lan          sheep                'lanolin, lamb'      x1 is a 
sheep/[lamb/ewe/ram] of species/breed x2 of flock x3 (cf. kanba, 
sunla)

> (Actually, there is a third animal with a different
> place structure, in this case with one place less instead of one
> more, but I think that one is easy to guess.)

remna rem     re'a human                                     x1 is a 
human/human being/man (non-specific gender-free sense); (adjective:) 
x1 is human (cf. nanmu, ninmu, prenu)

> Is {ri skari le tertirxu} very different from {ri skari le tirxu}
> or better {ri skari lo'e tirxu}?

go'i  .i ro tirxu cu skari gi'e danlu  .i ku'i no tirxu cu se skari

co'o mi'e tsali