Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: the muezzin's cry

From: Pierre Abbat <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:22:28 -0400

On Fri, 01 Jun 2001, Invent Yourself wrote:
>Was this word in existence before Islam though?

Yes, and it has its cognates in Hebrew Eloah and Akkadian Ili (the latter is a
word I remember from some children's version of Gilgamesh which had a few
sentences of Akkadian in it).

I still suggest {ala'uC} where C is some consonant. "Allah" sometimes occurs as
"Allahu" where "-u" is the nominative ending; it also occurs as "Allahi" but
Lojbanizing that would produce an invalid cmene.

phma