From phma@oltronics.net Sat Mar 03 18:19:17 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 4 Mar 2001 02:19:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 80895 invoked from network); 4 Mar 2001 02:19:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 4 Mar 2001 02:19:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (207.15.133.36) by mta3 with SMTP; 4 Mar 2001 03:20:17 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id E567F3C560; Sat, 3 Mar 2001 21:19:10 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: cmuxu'i, selratni, and other kinds of elements Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 21:12:28 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01030321191004.24245@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat Not knowing about "selratni", I made up "cmuxu'i" for chemical element, and used "jicmu" in the names of a few of them: jicmrboro, cancmu, sackycmu, lurcmu, tedjicmu. Is that a good root word for them? Is there a better? What should we call other kinds of elements, such as the Chinese elements, the four elements of the ancients, or Euclid's Elements? phma