sumti tcita

/suːm.ti.tʃiː.tɑː/

noun

A (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).

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Meanings

nounsumti tcita (plural sumti tcita)
  1. LojbangrammarA (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).

    We have seen in Lesson 5 that sumti tcita and tense cmavo can be used to add new sumti to a selbri.

    2001, Robin Turner, Nick Nicholas, Lojban For Beginners
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    Thus, a safer statement than yours is the claim that a fi'o construction can be devised that is semantically equivalent to any sumti tcita needed which is NOT in the lexeme BAI set.

    1991 May 13, Bob LeChevalier, “Jim Carter on lujvo place structures”, in lojban-list

    When the negated tense is a sumti tcita, “nai” ne­gation indicates that the stated relationship does not hold:

    1997, JW Cowan, The complete Lojban language, page 245

Origin

  1. Lojbansumti tcita
  2. Englishsumti tcita

From Lojban sumti tcita, tanru (meaning/phrase compound) spelling for sumtcita.

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