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alexbeard (Näytä profiilli) 4. tammikuuta 2009 1.10.00
danielcg (Näytä profiilli) 4. tammikuuta 2009 4.10.06
There is the word "kurta" as a synonime for "mallonga", but I don't advice its use except in poetry or in specialized vocabulary (e.g. "kurtonda" for "short wave"). I don't recall now any synonime for "malalta".
Regards,
Daniel
alexbeard:I was wondering, since the world for tall is alta in esperanto, then malalta means short. Is there any other world for short that does not use the 'mal' suffix? Or is that the only way to express it?
orthohawk (Näytä profiilli) 4. tammikuuta 2009 4.14.20
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I myself forgot about the word "foresto" the other day so used "neĉeesto" instead........which means pretty much the same thing.
danielcg (Näytä profiilli) 4. tammikuuta 2009 4.22.03
I guess you'll have to put up with my defect of forgetting to go back to the main text language after inserting a quote in another.
Regards,
Daniel
danielcg:we have two words in Esperanto for both opposites, respectively, "malalta" kaj "mallonga".
vejktoro (Näytä profiilli) 4. tammikuuta 2009 4.39.10
I`ve also seen 'kurttempa', as in a short-term something or other.
Or, as Daniel says, in literary work.
alexbeard (Näytä profiilli) 4. tammikuuta 2009 16.09.40
Like, when you want to make an adjective. Is it you take one adjective, and to make it's opposite you just put mal in front of it instead of using an entire different word?
For example:
pura means clean, malpura means dirty. is there another way to say dirty or do you just say malpura?
vejktoro (Näytä profiilli) 4. tammikuuta 2009 16.25.31
less words to learn.
fermi/malfermi
alexbeard (Näytä profiilli) 4. tammikuuta 2009 16.31.58
danielcg (Näytä profiilli) 4. tammikuuta 2009 16.58.02
Regards,
Daniel
alexbeard:How did he choose which words to use as the root?
alexbeard (Näytä profiilli) 4. tammikuuta 2009 17.00.50
danielcg:About 70 % from Latin, about 10 % from Greek and the rest from the most internacionalized roots in the Hindo-European languages.That's not what I mean, I mean how did he make the choice between using the word for tall or the word for short for the root?
Regards,
Daniel
alexbeard:How did he choose which words to use as the root?