Wednesday, July 23, 2008

jdini - 'money'


jdini
din, di'i

'money'

x1 is money/currency issued by x2; (adjective:) x1 is financial/monetary/pecuniary/fiscal



* 'currency' sometimes is restricted to paper money (=pledi'i).

cf. fepni, jdima, rupnu, sicni, canja, rupnu

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

prali - 'profit'


prali
pal

'profit'

x1 is a profit/gain/benefit/advantage to x2 accruing/resulting from activity/process x3



* also (fe) x2 profits from x3 (= selterprali for reordered places)
* x1 may be a specific object, a commodity (mass), an event, or a property
* pedantically, for objects/commodities, this is sumti-raising from ownership of the object/commodity (= selposprali for unambiguous semantics)

cf. vecnu, cnemu, pleji, jinga, canja, sfasa, jerna, jdima, dunda, zivle

zivle - 'invest'


zivle
ziv vle

'invest'

x1 (agent) invests resources x2 in investment x3 expecting return/profit x4 (object(s)/event)



* also ties up/[risks/gambles]
* x1 is an investor
* x2 are invested assets of x1
* bond (= jertervle)]

cf. prali, canja, jbera, dejni, ponse

I will simply ignore the fact that I didn't manage to post the last few weeks. I'll try to collect words related to finance/trading/investment this week.

Monday, June 23, 2008

ki'e - thanks

This week:

* jarco 'show'
* mapti 'fit'
* judri 'address'
* vreji 'record'
* terpa 'fear'

Thanks for reading this blog. Topic suggestions for next week?

Just to remember you:

* rinka 'cause'
* krino 'reason'
* gasnu 'do'
* fasnu 'event'
* gleki 'happy'

The words of the week before summed up:

* sidja 'help'
* nitcu 'need'
* djuno 'know'
* dinju 'building'
* cunso 'random'

The words of the week before the week before were:

* taxfu 'garment'
* cekra 'shirt'
* palku 'pants'
* skaci 'skirt'
* pastu 'robe'

The long-long-time ago words:

* balvi 'past'
* purci 'future'
* cmima 'member'
* lerfu 'letteral
* zmadu 'more'

Friday, June 20, 2008

jarco - 'show'


jarco
ja'o

'show'

x1 (agent) shows/exhibits/displays/[reveals]/demonstrates x2 (property) to audience x3



* reveal (= tolmipygau, mipyja'o, sivja'o)
* also: x1 shows that x2, x1 shows off x2
* showing an object is generally expressed with a tu'a x2, since the properties of the shown object (other than its presence) intended for observation are seldom specified (simple presence could be expressed by leka [object] cu zvati

cf. tigni, cipra, zgana, jvinu, lanli, mipri, simlu

Thursday, June 19, 2008

mapti - 'fit'


mapti
mat

'fit'

x1 fits/matches/suits/is compatible/appropriate/corresponds to/with x2 in property/aspect x3



cf. satci, tugni, sarxe, drani, tarmi, ckini, mintu

judri - 'address'


judri


'address'

x1 is an address of/are coordinates of x2 in system x3



cf. tcita, cmene, ciste, stuzi

Ha, I managed to post something today! .ui

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

vreji - 'record'


vreji
jre, vei

'record'

x1 is a record of x2 (data/facts/du'u) about x3 (object/event) preserved in medium x4



cf. sorcu, datni, papri

Monday, June 16, 2008

terpa - 'fear'


terpa
te'a

'fear'

x1 fears x2; x1 is afraid/scared/frightened by/fearful of x2 (event/tu'a object)



* also: x1 feels terror about x2;
* x2 is fearsome/fearful/frightening/scary to x1 (= selte'a to reorder places)

cf. snura, xalni, xanka, virnu