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

[Efrain Caro <betsemes@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Cyril Slobin <cyril@slobin.pp.ru> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 7:20 PM, selpa'i <seladwa@gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> ki'e cai!

Are you really that overwhelmed with gratitude feelings?

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