Michael Everson | Re: [LFN] Sana
On 23 Mar 2012, at 22:50, George Boeree wrote:
> Hi, Isaac. We could have gone that way, but lfn tends to stick to the forms found in the romance languages, and to make adjectives more basic (unlike "famosa"). For example, we decided to go with "fame" for the adjective "hungry", "fami" for the verb "be hungry", and "famia" for the noun "hunger". It's not always easy to decide. Unless you intend to create a true "logical" language (like Lojban), you have to make these decisions.
In Volapük we have "fam" 'fame', "famik" famous, and "faem" 'hunger', 'faemik" 'hungry'. "Saun" is 'health' and "saunik" 'healthy'. I think "healthful" might be somthing like "sauniälik", on the basis of "yuf" being 'help', "yufik" being 'helping', and "yufiälik" being 'helpful".
I suppose Volapük is off-topic.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/