Re: Basic vocabulary when starting a conlang

On 31 Aug 02, at 14:54, David Peterson wrote:

> "To die" is pretty standard, but why not have the basic verb "to be
> dead", and the verb "to die" a derivation, "to become dead"?  I've
> never seen it, but there's no reason why it couldn't
> happen.
Lojban has this. "morsi" is roughly "to be dead"; "die" is commonly
rendered by "mrobi'o", from mro < morsi + bi'o < binxo, which means
(roughly) "to become".

Cheers,
Philip
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