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Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 01:48:08 -0400
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Subject: Re: [lojban] guknu
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From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <lojbab@lojban.org>

At 01:42 PM 8/26/01 -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
>I just looked at the resurrected gismu page, which pointed to an archived
>message, in which the word {guknu} is glossed as "bow". This could be any of
>several homographs which aren't all pronounced the same and have unrelated
>meanings: front of a ship, bend over, arrow launcher, knot with loops. Which
>is it?

It was the weapon.

lojbab
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