Missing predicates

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Here is a place for storing known missing predicates which haven't got yet any word in Lojban.

li'a dai, this page should be crowded beyond imagination, but that's not yet the case fortunately. :P

List

  • du'u version of cusku?
    • sorry for a tiki style discussion here but how would that work with direct quotations? La Gleki (talk) 08:22, 13 oktobero 2014 (UTC)
      • There would be no linguistic communication implied (meaning can be conveyed without being encoded in a syntactic language); however you could still use {ta'i} or the "by way/method" argument slot, filling it with { lo ka bacru/ciska/.... [quote] }. mi'e la .ilmen. mu'o 12:45, 13 oktobero 2014 (UTC)
  • to be worth doing -- jerna, te prali?
    • jerna is rather "he is worth paying/praying for/being awarded" but usually not "doing" (although, "he is worth doing a favor to him" fits)
  • whether x1 happens depends on whether x2 happens (or similar) -- maybe fancu?
  • hearsay
  • to be loyal
  • to betray (probably polysemic)
    • x1 violates their allegiance like e.g. betrays his/her country
    • x1 is guilty of treason
    • x1 in breach of trust, delivers his country to x2 (enemy). See "surrender to ...", or yields up any fort or place intrusted to his defense, or surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished; also, one who takes arms and levies war against his country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering his country.
    • x1 betrays any confidence or trust (as a consequence of the previous meaning of "betray").
    • x1 surrenders x2 (e.g. army) to enemy x3
  • traffic -- {klafle} or {ma'efle} are probably suitable.
    • x1 is a movement of passengers, goods etc. x2 in system x3
      • x1 is a movement of pedestrians and vehicles... x2 on roads x3
  • traffic light
    • gusyjveklastika sei malselsku - light movement-regulator
    • gustromi'i - light conducter machine
    • fletrogusmi'i, maybe.
  • traffic jam
    • klafle nunselzu'i ~ nunseldicra? fleselzu'ifau?
  • tsani's recursive predicate
    • <tsani> .i lo ka broda cu ka ko'a ko'e fo'a fo'e ce'ai lo du'u fo'a li pa dubmau kei goi dy zo'u ge ganai me'au dy gi ko'a me'au fo'e lo broda be ko'e bei li mo'e fo'a vu'u pa bei fo'e gi ga me'au dy gi ko'a ko'e me'au fo'e