I agree that a star (heavenly body) and a star (shape) are distinct concepts and should have separate words.But in the context of shapes "star" still has multiple meanings:What gismu or lujvo would represent these two concepts?Is the second one the first one +dikni ?
On Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at 2:39:19 PM UTC+10, Pierre Abbat wrote:The word "star" is polysemous:
1. a heavenly body that emits light;
2. a non-convex shape that has a point from which all the inside can be seen;
3. a chief or excellent performer.
Sense 1 is {tarci}. Sense 3 could be expressed by a lujvo, which I won't worry
about right now. Sense 2, I think, deserves a gismu, but doesn't have one.
I think that sense 2 deserves a gismu because it appears in several compounds:
starfish, star-nosed mole, stellated polyhedron. What do you think? What would
be a good word for it?
Pierre
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