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Re: [lojban] And the Eskimos have 100 words for 'Snow Cone'
From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <lojbab@lojban.org>
At 10:24 AM 02/08/2000 +0200, Ivan A Derzhanski wrote:
>From: Ivan A Derzhanski <iad@math.bas.bg>
>
>sklyanin@pdmi.ras.ru wrote:
> > Ivan Derzhanski wrote:
> > >Never mind `fun'; why is there no word for `meal' in Russian
> > >(or Bulgarian, or many other languages for that matter)?
> >
> > Yes, I had a tough time trying to translate the gismu "sanmi" for my
> > Lojban-Russian dictionary (my current project, far from completion).
> > After all, I came up with "trapeza", a word rarely used in modern
> > language but the nearest thing to "meal" I could think of.
>
>Yet not nearly near enough. Some examples in the Codex talk about
>{citka le sanmi}; a _trapeza_ is something you can organise, share
>with someone, but you can't eat it. (Maybe etymology has something
>to do with it: before the two words could refer to an eating event,
>_meal_ was `food' and _trapeza_ was `table'.)
My English Russian disctionary gives yeda as a translation for "meal",
"repast", and "food". It may not exclusively mean "meal", but certainly
sounds like it would belong in a synonym list along with an explicit list
of meals.
lojbab
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