[lojban] Military ranks ki'orja'a, ctoja'a, and dekyja'a

[Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>]

Yesterday I read "The Debut of Bimbashi Joyce". I thought "Bimbashi" was 
Joyce's first name until I read "the Bimbashi". Then I looked it up and found 
out it's from Turkish, and there are also yuzbashis and ombashis. I'm guessing 
that the Turkish words are translations of χιλιαρχος, εκατονταρχος, and 
whatever the Greeks called decurions. So I thought up ki'orja'a, ctoja'a, and 
dekyja'a. What do you think?

I just looked up "general" in vlasisku and found several words of the form N-
moija'a. I think there was a proposal to take Chinese ranks and European ranks 
and mash them together to create fu'ivla. What became of those words?

Pierre
-- 
When a barnacle settles down, its brain disintegrates.
Já não percebe nada, já não percebe nada.

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lojban" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.