From phma@oltronics.net Sun Jun 11 04:40:48 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21487 invoked from network); 11 Jun 2000 11:40:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m1.onelist.org with QMQP; 11 Jun 2000 11:40:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.oltronics.net) (204.213.85.8) by mta2 with SMTP; 11 Jun 2000 11:40:47 -0000 Received: from neofelis (root@localhost) by mail.oltronics.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id HAA15419 for ; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 07:40:44 -0400 X-BlackMail: 207.15.133.19, neofelis, , 207.15.133.19 X-Authenticated-Timestamp: 07:40:45(EDT) on June 11, 2000 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Some lujvo... Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 07:27:58 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: <8hvss1+s5bd@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: <8hvss1+s5bd@eGroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0006110740470G.00838@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Pierre Abbat On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Alfred W. Tüting wrote: >>7) zirblagrute >>> 7) 1 is a bluish-purple fruit of species 2 (grape? plum? eggplant?) > >Shouldn't /zirbla/ be purplish-blue? Is eggplant a fruit or a >vegetable? - It might be /grute/ anyway ;) > >> 8) zirblaborutytricu >> >>> 8) 1 is a fruit tree of species 2 (as above -- scratch eggplant) > >Do eggplants grow on trees??? Can't imagine that /tricu/ comprises >shrubs, bushes and that kind of smaller plants, especially >those annual herbaceous plants (Germ.: Stauden). For eggplant, I'd use a fu'ivla. The only descriptive name I know of for it is "eggplant" itself (which properly refers to the white kind, Solanum esculentum); all others are variants of Sanskrit "vatinganah": badinjan, aubergine, brinjal, S. melongena, melenzana, mad apple (misinterpretation of "melenzana" as "mala insana"). Pick any you want and add "spaty" or "gruty" to the beginning of it. phma