Re: Lahabic Syntax
From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
Date: | Sunday, October 1, 2000, 20:33 |
taliesin the storyteller wrote:
> n 1: the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking
> about; "it was not a good idea"; "the thought never
> entered my mind" [syn: {thought}]
That's the only meaning that came to mind, actually.
> 2: a personal view; "he has an idea that we don't like him"
> 3: an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth;
> "an estimate of what it would cost"; "a rough idea how
> long it would take" [syn: {estimate}, {estimation}, {approximation}]
Number 3 certainly wouldn't be part of _uiáani_, number 2 probably
wouldn't.
> 4: your intention; what you intend to do; "he had in mind to
> see his old teacher"; "the idea of the game is to capture
> all the pieces" [syn: {mind}]
> 5: melodic subject of a musical composition; "the theme is
> announced in the first measures"; "the accompanist picked
> up the idea and elaborated it" [syn: {theme}, {melodic
> theme}, {musical theme}]
Number 5 definitely isn't part of _uiáani_. Number 4 most likely
isn't. I'll have to give that further thought.
> idea := sudden insight, <vycer> or <vyrr>
> idea := thought, would be derived from <âr> "to think that"
Hmm, "sudden insight" I never really thought of as a core part of
"idea". That might, perhaps, be _umiasilalá_ (inspiration).
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