How did the gismu get made: discussion, etymology examples?
There is a full set of etymologies on the file server. There is some explanation available, including samples, and a more verbose description in the Level 0 package and at the Lojban Etymology Information page. The etymologies in 6 languages and the scoring for each language are given, in order Chinese/English/Hindi/Spanish/Russian/Arabic—a 0 score means that the language made no contribution to the word, and thus its etymological keyword did not matter. The languages were weighted. While new gismu are not being made, lojbab updates the weighting based on estimated numbers of first and second language speakers every couple of years. The original and 1999 weights are available online.
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