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[lojban] Re: Russian etymology of Lojban

mublin wrote:

vlagi vulva


<vlagi> sounds very close to <*влаг*алище>=vagina


Added, leaving the Lojbanisation field blank, and marked dubious.
I spotted this one. Here is the full etymology (which includes words that were run but yielded a lesser score) 

vulva i20a
Chinese  wai\yin- (uaiiin)
English  vulva (valva) pudend-um (piudend) cunt (kant)
Hindi    bhag (bag) cut (cut)
Spanish  vuvla (vulva) cun~o (kuno)
Russian  (no equivalent word in dictionary)
Arabic   farj (farj)

note: "add this or genitals"
(genitals was run separately and apparently yielded a lower scoring word).
We also considered using a lujvo based on vagina-lip


kluza loose [blusk]
  блузка [bluzka] ``blouse''
I should not on this that JCB is the source of conflating loose and blouse (properly "bloused"). The concept "blouse" here is not the female garment, but a loose upper garment. (Sailors of either gender apparently wear blouses). 


kramu acre [deklatin]
  десятина [desâtina] ``tithe; dessiatina''
  --
  measure of land equivalent to 2,7 acres (source: http://www.rambler.ru/dict/)
  correct transcription ``desiatin''
Note that the intent is that Russian word would probably be made into a lujvo based on rusko-kramu 


tunba sibling []
  Russian source word missing in original gismu etymology file:
  --
  no Russian equivalent
  cf. сиблинг [sibling] ``sibling (scientific; rare)''


From the orginal etymology sheet:
Note: "This is a good concept but hard to look up because many lang's with masc/fem endings simply have a root that implies this and the ending specifies whether you mean "brother" or "sister". e.f. S. hermos-a; A. ult, ulta. I think it would be good for L. to have such, using m/f affixes when necessary"
Chinese tong/bao- (tunbau) = same parents (i had some 10 other possibilities listed on th back 
English sibling (siblin)
Hindi sahodar (saxodar) = uterine t. i. same mother
Spanish emparentad-o  (emparentad)
Russian and Arabic no usable equivalent


vibna vagina [blagalic]
  влагалище [vlagaliŝe] ``vagina''
  --
  correct transcription ``vlagalic''


I saw this one go by, but no time now to type in the etymology.

lojbab



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