[lojban] gismu etymology

[mublin <mublin@dealloc.org>]

coi rodo,

Does anybody know the format of the gismu etymology file [1]?

Also, this file lists source language words in a Lojbanised form, in
ASCII, without inflectional endings and with affricates reduced to
simple spirants. There is mention somewhere (but I can't remember
where) of a hardcopy with the source words in their original
form. Would it possible to scan this hardcopy and upload it to
Lojban.org?

It would be great to make the natural language origins of Lojban
vocabulary more visible. For example, having access to the original
words would open the way for an etymological section in a gismu
dictionary, with source words in Unicode and with IPA transcription
(and possibly Lojban/TLI Loglan correspondence as well, as this is
already documented in [2]).

[1] http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=gismu%20Etymology
[2] http://www.lojban.org/files/wordlists/oldlog.txt

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mu'o mi'e mublin.


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