Re: Ashley

[Logical Language Group <lojbab@ACCESS.DIGEX.NET>]

>I simply looked up the name in the 'Some first names' section of my
>dictionary (Chambers of Cambridge, 1988):
>
>Ashley, Ashleigh ash'li, m. and f. (Gmc.) from the surname derived from
>the common place name, meaning ash wood.

A lea is an open ar
ea (e.g. a grassy meadow) in a wood.  I don't know what
it meant in medieval times but itcould  eas
t very well could have been more strongly tied
to the woods than the open area.

But this has no bearing on the Lojban, it turns out, bec
ause the definition
of foldi (field) is broad enough such that tricyfoldi (ricfoi) was an early
lujvo for "forest/wood".    There are enough plausible other meanings for
tricycecmu, generally having to do with human communities in the woods or even
fantasy humanoid communities in trees, that I would not think first of
"wood" or "forest" as a translation.

lojbab