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Re: [lojban] imbrike

On Monday, February 18, 2013 13:40:31 Sebastian wrote:
> .ienai
> I don't understand the need for a fu'ivla for such a non-specific word.
> When I now look up the words tile/shingle/scale used in the proposed
> definition for {imbrike}, these words seem to have different meanings, and
> therefore produce a rather vague pe'i brivla. So if the intention is to
> have a word for the more general concept "roof covering", I suggest the
> lujvo {drugadri}: g1 is a roof covering for covering/sheltering roof d1=g2.

The concept I'm going for is not "roof covering" or "tile of a type used in 
Roman roofs", but "imbricate", "overlapping in a regular pattern". This 
applies equally well to roof tiles and fish scales.

> By the way, there have been a lot of discussions of glossary on the mailing
> list, but these discussions far from always result in words added in
> jbovlaste. Why?

In my case, sometimes I don't get around to entering the word, sometimes I 
don't feel certain enough after the discussion. I just entered "mifsle", but 
I'm not sure that "tairmupli" doesn't cover "allele", or what the best word 
for "SNP" is.

On Monday, February 18, 2013 11:48:07 Remo Dentato wrote:
> The "èmbrice" is a very specific shingle, the common Italian word is
> "tègola" (with letters pronounced as in lojban) from the latin "tègula"
> from "tègere"=to cover.

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imbrex and the Italian version, the 
Latin tegula is the Italian embrice, and the Latin imbrex is the Italian 
coppo.

Pierre
-- 
Don't buy a French car in Holland. It may be a citroen.

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