"brivla" meaning in All languages combined

See brivla on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: brivla [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Lojban brivla. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|jbo|brivla}} Lojban brivla Head templates: {{en-noun|brivla}} brivla (plural brivla)
  1. (Lojban grammar) A Lojban predicate word. Specifically, a word which may be used to express a selbri relation (a statement of truth of one kind or another) between a number of arguments. Gismu, lujvo and fu'ivla are all brivla. Wikipedia link: Lojban grammar Tags: Lojban Categories (topical): Grammar
    Sense id: en-brivla-en-noun-uFhjGvmq Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences

Download JSON data for brivla meaning in All languages combined (3.1kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "jbo",
        "3": "brivla"
      },
      "expansion": "Lojban brivla",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Lojban brivla.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "brivla",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "brivla"
      },
      "expansion": "brivla (plural brivla)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "briv‧la"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Grammar",
          "orig": "en:Grammar",
          "parents": [
            "Linguistics",
            "Language",
            "Social sciences",
            "Communication",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Brivla are \"content words\", i.e., categorematic. When acting as selbri they are roughly comparable to verbs (or adjectives (or even nouns), if the selbri's arity is one), and when acting as sumti (e.g., due to being prefixed with \"le\") they are comparable to nouns. If a brivla modifies another one (thereby forming a \"tanru\"), the modifying brivla would be comparable to an adverb or adjective (*), depending on whether the modified brivla is acting as selbri or sumti, respectively. // Footnote: (*) - the modifying brivla could instead be comparable, in some cases, to the modified brivla's predicate."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, John W. Cowan, The Complete Lojban Language →ISBN http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-download_wiki_attachment.php?attId=194",
          "text": "They often have no semantic meaning in themselves, though they may affect the semantics of brivla to which they are attached."
        },
        {
          "text": "a. 2001, Richard Curnow http://www.rpcurnow.force9.co.uk/jbofihe/\nFix major bugs in the lexical analysis for cmafi'e (brivla mis-scanned as sequences of cmavo joined together.)"
        },
        {
          "text": "a. 2003, Pierre Abbat https://web.archive.org/web/20050926021613/http://phma.hn.org/Language/valfendi.html http://web.archive.org/web/#*/http://phma.hn.org/Language/valfendi.html\nCurrently, it lexes cmene, cmavo, and brivla, and checkes [sic] cmene and cmavo for validity, but does not do full validity checking of brivla."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A Lojban predicate word. Specifically, a word which may be used to express a selbri relation (a statement of truth of one kind or another) between a number of arguments. Gismu, lujvo and fu'ivla are all brivla."
      ],
      "id": "en-brivla-en-noun-uFhjGvmq",
      "links": [
        [
          "grammar",
          "grammar"
        ],
        [
          "predicate",
          "predicate"
        ],
        [
          "selbri",
          "selbri"
        ],
        [
          "relation",
          "relation"
        ],
        [
          "argument",
          "argument"
        ],
        [
          "Gismu",
          "gismu"
        ],
        [
          "lujvo",
          "lujvo"
        ],
        [
          "fu'ivla",
          "fu'ivla"
        ],
        [
          "brivla",
          "brivla"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Lojban grammar) A Lojban predicate word. Specifically, a word which may be used to express a selbri relation (a statement of truth of one kind or another) between a number of arguments. Gismu, lujvo and fu'ivla are all brivla."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Lojban"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "grammar",
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Lojban grammar"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "brivla"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "jbo",
        "3": "brivla"
      },
      "expansion": "Lojban brivla",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Lojban brivla.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "brivla",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "brivla"
      },
      "expansion": "brivla (plural brivla)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "briv‧la"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English indeclinable nouns",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with irregular plurals",
        "English terms borrowed from Lojban",
        "English terms derived from Lojban",
        "en:Grammar"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Brivla are \"content words\", i.e., categorematic. When acting as selbri they are roughly comparable to verbs (or adjectives (or even nouns), if the selbri's arity is one), and when acting as sumti (e.g., due to being prefixed with \"le\") they are comparable to nouns. If a brivla modifies another one (thereby forming a \"tanru\"), the modifying brivla would be comparable to an adverb or adjective (*), depending on whether the modified brivla is acting as selbri or sumti, respectively. // Footnote: (*) - the modifying brivla could instead be comparable, in some cases, to the modified brivla's predicate."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, John W. Cowan, The Complete Lojban Language →ISBN http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-download_wiki_attachment.php?attId=194",
          "text": "They often have no semantic meaning in themselves, though they may affect the semantics of brivla to which they are attached."
        },
        {
          "text": "a. 2001, Richard Curnow http://www.rpcurnow.force9.co.uk/jbofihe/\nFix major bugs in the lexical analysis for cmafi'e (brivla mis-scanned as sequences of cmavo joined together.)"
        },
        {
          "text": "a. 2003, Pierre Abbat https://web.archive.org/web/20050926021613/http://phma.hn.org/Language/valfendi.html http://web.archive.org/web/#*/http://phma.hn.org/Language/valfendi.html\nCurrently, it lexes cmene, cmavo, and brivla, and checkes [sic] cmene and cmavo for validity, but does not do full validity checking of brivla."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A Lojban predicate word. Specifically, a word which may be used to express a selbri relation (a statement of truth of one kind or another) between a number of arguments. Gismu, lujvo and fu'ivla are all brivla."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "grammar",
          "grammar"
        ],
        [
          "predicate",
          "predicate"
        ],
        [
          "selbri",
          "selbri"
        ],
        [
          "relation",
          "relation"
        ],
        [
          "argument",
          "argument"
        ],
        [
          "Gismu",
          "gismu"
        ],
        [
          "lujvo",
          "lujvo"
        ],
        [
          "fu'ivla",
          "fu'ivla"
        ],
        [
          "brivla",
          "brivla"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Lojban grammar) A Lojban predicate word. Specifically, a word which may be used to express a selbri relation (a statement of truth of one kind or another) between a number of arguments. Gismu, lujvo and fu'ivla are all brivla."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Lojban"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "grammar",
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Lojban grammar"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "brivla"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.