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Re: the Fek'lhr?

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: the Fek'lhr?
• Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 11:40:28 -0500
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Voragh:
> > *Koboldo* is Esperanto for "(hob)goblin, gnome, imp, evil sprite."  The
> > word was borrowed from either German *Kobold* or Russian *kobol'd* - two
> > languages Zamenhoff knew.  As for why the poster used it to explain a typo,
> > cf. *preskoboldo* below.
> >
> > I found a good definition of the word in Esperanto at:
> >      http://www.uni-leipzig.de/esperanto/voko/revo/art/kobold.html

qurgh:
>Not speaking Esperanto getting a defination for a word in that language 
>doesn't
>really help much...

*preskoboldo* = *preso* "(printing) press" + *koboldo* "(hob)goblin, gnome, 
imp, evil sprite".  Cf. German *Druckfehlerteufel* = *Druck* "(printing) 
press" + *Fehler* "error, mistake" + *Teufel* "devil, imp, etc.", or the 
goblin/imp responsible for typographical errors.

>Could you give us a SEI for preskoboldo?

What is "SEI"?



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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