Appendix:Lojban/jai

Lojban

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Etymology 1

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A priori.

Particle

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jai (selma'o JAI JAI)

  1. Immediately preceding a sumti tcita, turns that sumti tcita into a postposition which tags a labeled sumti which has traded its usual place for first place (in the bridi), while the usual first sumti has ended up being moved to a place labeled with fai.
    • 2012, Betsemes, “Sentence nº1770793”, in tatoeba.org[1], retrieved 2012-08-12:
      la lojban. jai bau se ciska mi fai levi jufra
      Lojban is the language in which is written by me this sentence.
    levi jufra cu se ciska mi bau la lojban.
    This sentence is written by me in Lojban.

Etymology 2

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From jgari.

Affix

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jai

  1. Rafsi of jgari.