Re: [lojban] What is the source of gismu *definitions*?

[Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>]

On Sunday, January 13, 2013 15:31:22 Bob LeChevalier, President and Founder - 
LLG wrote:
> Ian Johnson wrote:
> > This really only covers morphology in significant detail, the actual
> > choice of the words from the source languages as well as the way in
> > which the place structures of the words were created are rather
> > undocumented, to my knowledge.
> 
> The choice of the words from source languages is fully documented, but
> not in a net-available form.  I have a thick binder with one handwritten
> form page per 1 to 4 words showing precisely what the etymologies were
> that we considered, and that were actually used. An abbreviated form
> showing what was finally used is in a file on the Lojban web site somewhere.

If you look up a gismu in the English Wiktionary, you'll see which words from 
the source language contributed to it (words that didn't are left out), often 
with a link to the Wiktionary entries for those words. The data came from that 
file.

I would be interested in knowing the etymologies of words that were deleted 
from the official gimste, such as "gumri" and "sicpi". As to the place 
structures, I'd find the choice of the irregular ones, such as "mitre" and 
"lanme", interesting.

Pierre
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