different between brivla vs gismu

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Lojban brivla.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: briv?la

Noun

brivla (plural brivla)

1. (Lojban grammar) A Lojban predicate word. Specifically, a word which may be used to express a selbri relation (a statement of truth of one kind or another) between a number of arguments. Gismu, lujvo and fu'ivla are all brivla.

   Brivla are "content words", i.e., categorematic. When acting as selbri they are roughly comparable to verbs (or adjectives (or even nouns), if the selbri's arity is one), and when acting as sumti (e.g., due to being prefixed with "le") they are comparable to nouns. If a brivla modifies another one (thereby forming a "tanru"), the modifying brivla would be comparable to an adverb or adjective (*), depending on whether the modified brivla is acting as selbri or sumti, respectively. // Footnote: (*) - the modifying brivla could instead be comparable, in some cases, to the modified brivla's predicate.

   • 1997, John W. Cowan, The Complete Lojban Language ?ISBN [1]

     They often have no semantic meaning in themselves, though they may affect the semantics of brivla to which they are attached.

   • a. 2001, Richard Curnow [2]

     Fix major bugs in the lexical analysis for cmafi'e (brivla mis-scanned as sequences of cmavo joined together.)

   • a. 2003, Pierre Abbat [3] [4]

     Currently, it lexes cmene, cmavo, and brivla, and checkes [sic] cmene and cmavo for validity, but does not do full validity checking of brivla.

   Hyponym: gismu

See also

• Category:Lojban brivla

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Lojban gismu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?s.mu?/

Noun

gismu (plural gismu)

1. (Lojban grammar) A brivla that is a basic Lojban root, rather than being derived through compounding or borrowing.
   • 1997, John W. Cowan, The Complete Lojban Language, ?ISBN:

     When two gismu are adjacent, the first one modifies the second, and the selbri takes its place structure from the rightmost word.

   • 2005, Brian D. Eubanks, Wicked Cool Java, [1]:

     There are over 1,300 root gismu in the Lojban vocabulary, and these structures form a very interesting ontology of their own.

   • 2008, Robin Turner and Nick Nicholas, Lojban for Beginners:^[2][3]

     The main type of word used as a selbri is a gismu, or root-word.

     Each gismu is exactly five letters long, and has one of two consonant-vowel patterns:CVCCV or CCVCV (e.g. rafsi or bridi). The gismu are built so as to minimize listening errors in a noisy environment. A gismu has at least two combining forms, known as rafsi. One is the gismu itself; one is the gismu with the final vowel deleted. Certain gismu have additional, shorter rafsi assigned. Up to three of these shorter rafsi may be assigned to a gismu, depending on frequency of usage of the gismu in building complex concepts and on availability of these shorter rafsi. Short rafsi use only certain combinations of letters from the gismu, and are of the forms CCV, CVC, CVV or CV'V.

   Hypernym: brivla

   Coordinate terms: lujvo, fu'ivla

See also

• gismu
• rafsi