Subject: Re: [lojban] Some lujvo...

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 15:37:10 EDT

In a message dated 00-06-10 13:55:19 EDT, aulun writes:

<< asking if they're correct (or somebody of you can give me
better proposals):
1) mamjepa'u,
2) patmamjepa'u
3) patpa'u,
4) patmamta
5) mampa'u
6) ceirmamta or cesmamta (rather than: la ceirmam. :) - la mydanas.)
7) zirblagrute
8) zirblaborutytricu >>
Correct depends on what they are meant to mean. these all look pretty much OK
and would mean roughly
1) 1 (collective) are the parents of 2 but <je> is represented by <jev> so 
<mamjevypa'u>, using <jav> or <jol> insted would give a natural 1 is a 
parent of 2
2) 1 are the paternal grandparents of 2 (see above)
3) 1 is the paternal grandfather of 2
4) 1 is the paternal grandmother of 2
5) 1 is the maternal grandfather of 2
6) 1 is a god mother/ holy mother of 2 -- probably not culturally neutral: 
maybe social mother or religious mother or education mother is more neutral 
-- every culture seems to have such a job.
7) 1 is a bluish-purple fruit of species 2 (grape? plum? eggplant?)
8) 1 is a furit tree of species 2 (as above -- scratch eggplant)