Lojban In General

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 01:13:13PM -0400, Bob LeChevalier wrote:
> vulva i20a
> Chinese wai\yin- (uaiiin)
> English vulva (valva) pudend-um (piudend) cunt (kant)
> Hindi bhag (bag) cut (cut)
> Spanish vuvla (vulva) cun~o (kuno)
> Russian (no equivalent word in dictionary)
> Arabic farj (farj)

Thanks, Russian source word removed (kept a comment about
влагалище). This also confirms the reconstructed Chinese source word,
which was dubious.

> >tunba sibling []
> Chinese tong/bao- (tunbau) = same parents (i had some 10 other
> possibilities listed on th back
> English sibling (siblin)
> Hindi sahodar (saxodar) = uterine t. i. same mother
> Spanish emparentad-o (emparentad)
> Russian and Arabic no usable equivalent

Also confirms Chinese.

> Note: "This is a good concept but hard to look up because many
> lang's with masc/fem endings simply have a root that implies this
> and the ending specifies whether you mean "brother" or
> "sister". e.f. S. hermos-a; A. ult, ulta. I think it would be good
> for L. to have such, using m/f affixes when necessary"

<off-topic>

"when necessary." — Unlike its equivalents in many languages,
``tunba'' gives us an option to qualify by gender, rather than forcing
us to do so. In this light, it would have been even better to
eliminate the redundant ``bruna and ``mensi.

</off-topic>

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