English words from Lojban
- LojbanOf or relating to Lojban.
- gismuA brivla that is a basic Lojban root, rather than being derived through compounding or borrowing.
- sumtian argument passed to a selbri (“predicate”)
- cmavoFunction word(s), i.e., structural words.
- lujvoA Lojban compound word, made up of several gismu (“root words”) in their rafsi (“abbreviated”) form, joined together.
- brivlaA 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.
- cmeneA proper name, or proper noun, respelled according to Lojban rules; reckoned as a part of speech separate from brivla (content words) and cmavo (function words).
- fu'ivlaA Lojban word for a common noun which has been borrowed from another language.
- rafsiAn abbreviated form of a gismu (Lojban root word), used as an affix to make lujvo (Lojban compound words).
- selma'oA set of cmavo (“structure words/particles”) which are grammatically interchangeable; a "part of speech" used in defining Lojban's formal grammar.
- sumti tcitaA (Lojban analogue of a) preposition; a "sumti label" for extra sumti (“arguments”) of the selbri which the sumti tcita modifies. (By "extra sumti" are meant sumti which have not been assigned places in the selbri (“predicate”)'s place structure).
- tanruA compound brivla (“content word”): that is, a sequence of two or more brivla with possible intervention/incrustation of cmavo to modify the way in which the brivla associate. (Left on their own, the brivla behave in a left-associative manner, where each brivla is modified by the brivla or sub-tanru to its left, before going on to modify the brivla to its right.) The component brivla maintain their separateness (i.e., they are separated by spaces), making tanru different from lujvo.