Re: Beyond Whorf: "things," "qualities," and the origin of nouns and adjectives

["Alfred W. Tueting (Tüting)" <Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de>]

--- In lojban@egroups.com, John Cowan <cowan@c...> wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Ivan A Derzhanski wrote:
> 
> > Not to me.  In light of {ninmu} `woman', {ninba} makes me imagine
> > an old woman (a granny) rather than a young one (a girl).
> 
> But plainly a "ninba" is a "ba ninmu", no?

Shouldn't that be "nimba"?

.aulun.