Le mercredi 15 avril 2015 13:39:19 UTC+9, Pierre Abbat a écrit :
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?
mi pu ze'u ca ze'u la'a ba ji'a jinvi lo du'u lo'e tarci cu na se tarmi le'e tarci
Starfish are more like "se tarmi le'e tarci", and I guess the corresponding words for "starfish" in many languages are derived from "star". I know only two exceptions: "human-hand" in Japanese and "sea-plate-wheel" in Chinese.
I understand that gismu form should be created from words of natural languages, but, in this case, I prefer creating it from lojban words for a geometrical definition of stellation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellation#Kepler.27s_definition
Maybe from :
terkubli tcena tarmi
for example, {kutmi}, {kutca} or something.
mu'o