Subject: Re: tertirxu

From: "Arnt Richard Johansen" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 22:42:57 -0000

> There are only two animals that got weird place structures.
> One is the tiger. Can anyone guess what the other is without
> looking it up?

lanme lan sheep 'lanolin, lamb' x1 is a 
sheep/[lamb/ewe/ram] of species/breed x2 of flock x3 (cf. kanba, 
sunla)

> (Actually, there is a third animal with a different
> place structure, in this case with one place less instead of one
> more, but I think that one is easy to guess.)

remna rem re'a human x1 is a 
human/human being/man (non-specific gender-free sense); (adjective:) 
x1 is human (cf. nanmu, ninmu, prenu)

> Is {ri skari le tertirxu} very different from {ri skari le tirxu}
> or better {ri skari lo'e tirxu}?

go'i .i ro tirxu cu skari gi'e danlu .i ku'i no tirxu cu se skari

co'o mi'e tsali