From lojbab@lojban.org Sun Apr 23 19:51:09 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6437 invoked from network); 24 Apr 2000 02:51:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m1.onelist.org with QMQP; 24 Apr 2000 02:51:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO qh.egroups.com) (10.1.2.28) by mta2 with SMTP; 24 Apr 2000 02:51:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 32190 invoked from network); 24 Apr 2000 02:51:09 -0000 Received: from stmpy.cais.net (205.252.14.63) by qh.egroups.com with SMTP; 24 Apr 2000 02:51:09 -0000 Received: from bob (209-8-89-78.dynamic.cais.com [209.8.89.78]) by stmpy.cais.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA17583 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 22:49:46 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000423224802.00b0d490@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: vir1036/pop.cais.com@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 22:54:19 -0400 To: Lojban Listserver Subject: Re: [lojban] Whence "balvi"? In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" At 02:19 AM 04/23/2000 -0400, Invent Yourself wrote: >Does anybody remember which languages the word "balvi" was based upon? Per the file "finprims" in the etymology directory of www.lojban.org, balvi gets a 36.47 score from 3/7 Chinese jianlai (a-l-i) 2/5 English later (leitr l-i) 4/5 lojbanized Hindi bavic (ba-vi) and 2/6 lojbanized Arabic mukbil (b-l). No contribution from Russian (buduc) or Spanish (futur). Thus it looks like the determining contribution was Hindi, with reinforcement of some phonemes and their order from other languages. lojbab ---- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org (newly updated!)