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Symmetric gismu, and a question about {diklo}
An interesting class of gismu are those broda that are
synonymous with selbroda.
I think these are all of them (I separated them in three
subclasses). The x3 is usually a "standard" place, or something
similar that qualifies the relationship.
Abstract:
du same identity as
sevzi self
mintu same
dunli equal
simsa similar
panra parallel
mapti fit
sarxe harmonious
srana pertain
ckini related
frica differ
drata other
dukti opposite
fatne reverse
Space-time:
cabna now
zvati at
stali remain
diklo local
jorne joined
kruca intersect
lamji adjacent
mlana side
jibni near
sepli apart
darno far
Human (mostly):
jamna war
panpi peace
damba fight
fapro oppose
tugni agree
jivna compete
penmi meet
kansa with
gletu copulate
speni married
tunba sibling
tamne cousin
(I didnt include {bradi} (enemy), because {pendo} (friend) is
not symmetric and I suppose then {bradi} isn't either.)
And there's a fourth class with only one:
rimni rhyme
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I have doubts about {diklo}:
> diklo klo local
> x1 is local to x2;
> x1 is confined to locus x2 within range x3
> [indicates a specific location/value within a range; e.g. a hits b.
> What is the locality on b that a hits?];
da de diklo di
I assume {da} and {de} occupy the same place (or what can be viewed
as the same place in context, I don't want to argue whether two things
can occupy the same space at the same time), but what does {di} do?
Is it something like:
le lunra le terdi cu diklo le solri ciste
"The Moon is local to the Earth within range the
Solar System" (if you pardon my Jboglish)
The "confined" part is what I don't understand. Shouldn't it be
something like "x1 is local to x2 confined to/within range x3",
rather than x1 confined to x2?
Jorge
(In another post I'll talk about the antisymmetric gismu: pairs broda,
brode, such that broda is a synonym of selbrode, and viceversa.)