Re: [lojban] Question: origins of "spitaki"

[Remo Dentato <rdentato@gmail.com>]

I would have not guessed it because in "Psittaciformes" the "ci" doesn't sound like {ki} but more like {tci}.

On Friday, July 20, 2012, selpa'i wrote:

Am 20.07.2012 17:13, schrieb Cyril Slobin:

Can anyone explain me the etymology of "spitaki"? From which language is it borrowed? Not obvious for me, sorry.

Parrots are from the order of Psittaciformes. Using part before -formes, we are left with "psittaci". To turn this into a stage-4 fu'ivla, we can't use *{psitaki}, because {ps} is not valid. Therefore, we switch ps to sp and get {spitaki} = parrot.

mu'o mi'e la selpa'i

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.i pau mi me ma .i pa mai ko mi jungau la'e di'u 
.i ba bo mi va'o lo nu nelci lo nu me ma kau cu barkla 
.i va'o lo nu na nelci cu denpa ti lo nu mi drata

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