dak knife
'knife '
x1 is a knife (tool) for cutting x2, with blade of material x3 1f 19 (cf. denci, balre, katna, tunta, forca, smuci, kin
(cf. denci, balre, katna, tunta, forca, smuci, kinli)
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(cf. denci, balre, katna, tunta, forca, smuci, kinli)
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[also detours around, stays away from; (x1 is normally an object, but may be an event)]; (cf. bandu which is not necessarily successful, fanta, which is agentive, se jersi which implies an opposing agent, sisku, kalte, fapro)
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(x2 as a set includes points at least sufficient to constrain the route relevantly); (cf. bajra, cadzu, cpare, tcana, klama, cliva, pluta, limna, muvdu)
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[It is very un-Lojbanic to translate the generic English copula 'is' by this word]; (cf. mintu)
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[also resists]; (cf. bandu, bradi, darlu, damba, jivna, lanxe, rivbi, sarji, xarnu)
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[also mythos, creed, traditional beliefs, x2 people(s), adherents; (adjective:) x1, x2, x3 are religious/ecclesiastic in nature; x2 is a believer in/of x1, an adherent/follower of x1 (= seljda for reordered places); x2 is a practitioner of x3 (= selterjda for reordered places); x3 is a tenet/belief/ritual/creed of x1/x2 (= terjda for reordered places); priest/clerical (= jdaca'i, jdaka'i, jdaja'a); organized church/religion (= be'ejda); congregation (= jdabe'e, jdagri)]; (cf. budjo, censa, cevni, crida, dadjo, jegvo, krici, latna, malsi, marde, muslo, pruxi, ranmi, ritli, xriso, zekri)
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(cf. djine)
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(cf. masno)
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(cf. fenki)
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(cf. gurni)
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(cf. grute, stagi)
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(cf. cmavo list .u'u, cinmo, xenru, zekri)
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[also (adjective:) x1 is neural]; (cf. ve benji)
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(cf. bavmi, cunmi, mavji, maxri, molki, mraji, rismi, sobde, spati, zumri, nanba, sorgu)
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(cf. dukti, frica, cizra)
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[ray/beam (= nenli'i)]; (cf. marji, tarmi, kantu, lazni, livla)
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[(unlike fanri,) need not produce a product; grain mill (= grumlo), grinding mill (= zalmlo, zalmlotci, zalmloca'a)]; (cf. gasta, gurni, tirse, fanri, zalvi)
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(cf. tansi, palne for depth; baktu, botpi for open/lidded)
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(cf. tricu, stani)
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(cf. djacu, fulta, klama, litru)
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(cf. ckana, palne, kabri, tansi, ckana)
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[gravity (= ka maicpu, maircpukai)]; (cf. catke, sakci, cokcu)
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(cf. stedu)
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[also secures (verb); x1 wards/resists x3; protective cover/shield (= badgai)]; (cf. ckape, fanta, fapro, marbi, rivbi, zunti, snura, binra, lunbe, pulji)
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(cf. nitcu, djica, xagji, pinxe)
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(cf. cmavo list zau, natfe)
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[conditions include temperature and pressure]; (cf. runta, litki, gapci, jdari, dunja, pulce, jduli)
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(cf. zgike)
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[also assistant, adjutant]; (cf. krati, sidju)
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[also x2 dispute/struggle (though x2 is not limited to disagreements, which is merely one manifestation of scalar or distributed values in which there is a medial position)]; (cf. midju, lanxe, milxe, mutce, cmavo list no'e)
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(cf. sarxe, mapti, darlu, natfe, panpi, sarji)
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(cf. jamna; use sarxe, smaji, tugni for most metaphorical extensions, cilce, jamna)
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[secretion (= selcigla)]; (cf. vikmi, xasne)
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[also possibility]; (cf. lakne, cumki)
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(cf. xispo, ketco, spano)
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[x2: composition including x2, which need not be complete specification];(cf. kunra, jemna, canre)
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(cf. bajra, plipe, cadzu, serti)
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(cf. dukse, claxu, nitcu, ricfu, curmi)
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[also collection, team, comprised of, comprising; members x3 (a specification of the complete membership) comprise group x1; cluster (= kangri)]; (cf. bende, ciste, cmima, gunma, panra, cabra, cecmu, kansa, klesi, lanzu, liste, vrici)
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(cf. bikla, gunta, jenca, tunta, tikpa, janli, jgari, pencu)
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(cf. berti, stuna, stici, farna)
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[also constrains; requires success, unlike the physics term (better expressed by danre)]; (cf. fanta, rinju, jimte, jitro, rinka, krinu, zukte, randa, danre, cmavo list bai, marxa, tinsa, xarnu)
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[x1 may be a complete or incomplete list of members; x2 is normally marked by la'i/le'i/lo'i, defining the set in terms of its common property(ies), though it may be a complete enumeration of the membership]; (cf. ciste, porsi, jbini, girzu, gunma, klesi, cmavo list mei, kampu, lanzu, liste)
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(cf. grute, slari, slami, xukmi)
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(cf. bukpu)
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(cf. cinki, sfani, lakse)
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[agentive break, cause to become inoperable (= pofygau, pofyzu'e); accidentally break, as a result of an event, non-agentive (= pofyja'e, nutpo'uja'e)]; (cf. daspo, katna, porpi, se xrani, cikre)
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(cf. krici, manci)
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[skull (= sedbo'u)]; (cf. drudi, mebri, xedja, besna, flira, mapku)
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(cf. zmadu, banro, sumji, zenba, setca)
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(cf. sraji, plita, xutla)
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(cf. jdima, vamji, vecnu, canja, jerna, dejni, jbera)
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[also o'clock, time-of-day]; (time units in x1 are specified as numbers separated by pi'e or are unit values massified with joi); (cf. cmavo list ti'u, cacra, cerni, detri, donri, djedi, junla, nicte, mentu, snidu, temci, vanci, dirba, mokca)
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[on the other side of a bound, but not necessarily directly 'across' nor at the shortest plausible distance (per ragve); also not limited to position in space]; (cf. dukse, ragve, zmadu, kuspe)
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(cf. cmalu, jarki, caxno, cinla, clani)
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(cf. rotsu, jarki, tordu, cmalu, caxno, plana, jarki)
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[also formal, ritual]; (cf. ritli)
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[also atmosphere (= varxamsi, varsenta)]; (cf. daplu, djacu, lalxu, rirxe, tumla, vacri, zbani, ctaru)
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[also: x2 is doubtful/dubious/questionable (= selsenpi for reordered places)]; (cf. jinvi, krici, djuno, birti)
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(cf. sigja, marna)
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(cf. cmavo list ba'anai, menli, pensi, sanji, djuno, notci)
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(cf. jaspu)
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(cf. bruna, mensi, tamne)
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(cf. xrabo)
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[use x3 tu'a for fight over an object/objective]; (cf. bradi, gunta, talsa, darlu, fapro, jamna, sonci)
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[also bowl]; (cf. baktu, palne, palta, patxu, kabri for a bowl that is normally lifted for use, botpi)
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[This can cover both meanings of old. Old in years, i.e. age, can be conveyed through x2 = the world, life, existence (= loi nu zasti); in usage this has been a common default for ellipsis. However slabu is not the opposite of 'young' (= nalci'o, tolci'o), but the opposite of 'new' (= tolni'o); also ancient (= tcesau), age (= nilsau); x2 is used to x1 (= selsau for reordered places); historic/historical (= cirsau, cirselcedra; also vaipru)]; (cf. clani, citno, cnino, se djuno; not the opposite of citno, djuno)
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[x1 is sensitive to x2; also feels, spots, perceives, makes out, discerns/recognizes (but only implying reaction without necessarily any significant mental processing); note that the emphasis is on a property which stimulates x1 and is detected (sanji is passive about the sensing, and is not limited to sensory input, as well as presuming some kind of discernment/recognition, while not being concerned with the means of detection); x3 sense/sensory channel]; (cf. pencu, sanji, viska, sumne, tirna, zgana, canci, simlu)
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(cf. dakfu, tunta, tutci, guska, kinli, katna)
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(cf. bitmu, stedu, galtu, gapru, loldi, marbi, gacri, mapku; a drudi is (designed to be) over/above something and shelters it from other things above the drudi, mapku)
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[note that fruits and nuts are also vegetables; generally this word will be used for either the general category of edible plants, or for non-fruit vegetables (= nalrutstagi)]; (cf. grute, kobli, narge, sluni, spati, sunga, tamca)
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[(adjective:) x1 is manual]; (cf. birka, degji, jitro, xlura, jamfu, tamji)
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(cf. botpi, patxu, tansi, lante, lanka)
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(cf. lunra, mluni, terdi, solri, munje)
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[gallon (= likydekpu), quart (= likseldekpu), barrel (wet = likybradekpu, dry = sudbradekpu), bushel (= sudydekpu), peck (= sudyseldekpu), cupful (= kabrydekpu), tablespoon (= mucydekpu); teaspoon (= mucyseldekpu); (all of these lujvo may need gic- to distinguish the English measurement system in contrasting with some local system; the English system is otherwise presumed to be the default non-metric system)]; (additional subunit places may be added as x5, x6, ...); (cf. canlu, litce, rupnu, fepni, gutci, minli, merli, bunda, kramu)
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(cf. cipni)
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(cf. vacri, xamsi; tutra, which need not be land, gugde, xamsi)
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[also case, another, instance, different, other, time, occasion]; (cf. fukpi, rapli, cafne, fasnu, xruti)
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(cf. gusni)
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[also matter, concern; x2 is engaged in x1 (which is usually an abstraction) (= selcu'u for reordered places)] (cf. jikca, srana)
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[also (adjective:) x1 is angular; x2 corner; (segment x3 can be defined by interval)]; (cf. kojna, linji, konju, mokca)
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[also (expressible either with desku or slilu): side to side, to and fro, back and forth, reciprocal (motion), rotates, revolves]; (cf. dikni, rilti, morna, desku, janbe, boxna)
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[Semitic includes Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Ethiopian, among others]; (cf. xrabo)
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[x2 (a complete set, generally ordered) defines the bounds/limits/range for x1]; (cf. se vasru, nenri, zvati, cpana, snuji, senta, bitmu, jimte, kuspe, jibni, lamji, sruri, vanbi, midju, cmima, setca)
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(cf. sinso)
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[also: x3 is the standard of orientation for x2; spine (= rixybo'u, rixybo'ukamju)]; (cf. crane, rebla, mlana, pritu, zunle)
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[also: x1 has a hunch that x2 is true; x1 imagines x2 is true; words usable for epistemology typically have a du'u place]; (cf. djuno, facki, jijnu, sruma)
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(cf. sanji, sipna, tatpi)
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(x1 may be object or si'o idea); (cf. cmavo list ma'i, ckilu, merli, pajni, cimde, jdice, marde)
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[(note that x2 is NOT individual; culture is what is shared among people and is not an individual trait)]; (cf. cmavo list ka'u, cmavo list ku'u, natmi, cecmu)
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(cf. grake, linto, tilju, bunda)
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[also x4 nucleus, center (= velnarge for place reordering)]; (cf. grute, stagi, jbari, midju)
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(cf. cevni, krici, latna, pruxi, lijda, sinma)
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[also timepiece]; (cf. cacra, mentu, snidu, tcika, temci)
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[word dispreferred in metaphor/example as sexist; (use verba)]; (cf. nanla, verba, ninmu)
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(cf. nilce, zutse, jubme, ckana)
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[credit (= jernu'e); borrow/assume a property or quality as a chameleon does (= zaskai, zasysmitra, zasysmitai)]; (cf. dejni, janta, zivle)
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(cf. fasnu)
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(cf. gapci, kijno, trano, tumla, vasxu, xamsi)
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[x2 may be event of form (... worships/pays/respect to ...), hence (metaphorically extending to) monument (= mojmalsi, si'armalsi)]; (cf. cevni, krici, lijda, ritli)
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[a railed vehicle or train of vehicles; also subway (tu'unre'e), metro, trolley, tramway (= lajre'e), roller coaster; monorail (= dadre'e); cable car, sky car, ski lift (= cildadre'e)]; (cf. tcana)
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[defaults to not include Urdu; Indian (Bharat) nationality may be implied (when constrained by xingu'e)]; (cf. srito, xurdo, bengo)
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(cf. slaka, bangu, cmavo, cmene, gismu, jufra, rafsi, smuni)
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(cf. dembi, gurni)
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(cf. panra, satci, mapti, simsa, drata, dunli, cmavo list du - which has no standard place, simxu)
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