Re: Eaton: You asked for it ...

[Jorge LLambias <jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU>]

> "deserving" sounds a lot like "just" and "fair", which we often debated
> adding a gismu for, but then decided that there were probably many concepts
> embedded in the word.  I think that tyhe meaning associated with most usage of
> "deserving" can be built from "mapti" fits/is appropriate to, but I'll let
> someone else actually propose a lujvo or two (and place structure).  Maybe
> cnemu mapti, in the sense that a reward need not necessarily be good, nor
> are deserving people always deserving of reward rather than punishment.
>
> lojbab
>

I don't so much want a word for "deserve", as one to serve as a tertanru
for many lujvo (usually ending in -able in English) like "readable",
"admirable", "credible", "trustable", "commendable", "lovable", "forgetable"
"forgivable", "remarcable", "believable", "unusable", "considerable",
"laughable", "attendible", "regretable", etc, etc.

Some can be approximated with -xau or -ka'e, but not always.

{mapti} looks like a good one for the concept. Pity it doesn't have a
vowel-ending rafsi. I suppose it is out of the question that it steal
"mai" from {marji} (which has also "maj"), or give "mat" to {masti} in
exchange for "ma'i"?

Jorge