[lojban] Arthropods was: djekarni

[Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>]

On Tuesday, August 09, 2016 19:14:07 Bruno Panasiewicz wrote:
> I don't know, but the odd, hierarchy based gismu don't seem to be any good.
> «jukni» warns me that I better use some other word to mean 'spider'.

I have no problem with "kumtyjukni", "sarvanjukni", "rebjukni", or even 
"xirsfujukni", but I call pillbugs "boirlokra", not "boirjukni". ("lokra" was 
coined some years ago from various words in the source languages.) "jukyju'e" 
can only mean "spider web" as no other chelicerates spin webs.

I'm not sure what to call centipedes and millipedes. I've used "sortupcinki" 
for centipedes. This fits the house centipede, which looks like an insect with 
too many legs, but not the long flexible centipedes or millipedes. There is 
disagreement among biologists about whether myriapods should be classified next 
to the chelicerates or next to the insects.

There's a word "juknyxarju" in jbovlaste. What's a spider pig?

Pierre
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