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Re: [lojban] for Pierre: puffins



c/k is an aesthetic choice here, the one for sound (though c is no more stably /k/ in Late Latin than in other languages) one for look (which is stable).



From: selpa'i <seladwa@gmx.de>
To: lojban@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 9, 2013 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: [lojban] for Pierre: puffins

la .pycyn. cu cusku di'e
> Someone elsewhere asked about puffins in various conlangs.  Lojban
> doesn't have 'em at the moment, but I volunteered cpifratercula or
> cipnyfratercula, subject to getting the phonotactics right.  Corrections
> and improvements please.

{cpifratercula} is fine morphologically, but I think you'd want {cpifraterkula} instead, since {c} is pronounced [S] in Lojban and you want [k].

{cipnyfratercula} is not a fu'ivla, as fu'ivla cannot contain -y-. It is a lujvo from the veljvo {cipni fratercula} (gismu + zi'evla}. It would also be fine to omit the cipni-prefix altogether and just say {fraterkula}.

mu'o mi'e la selpa'i

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