The following are rough etymologies of a sampling of Lojban words. These are being assembled for eventual publication as a set, but we have to manually reconstruct what the computer-run algorithm did for each word. It is key to remember that we often ran several words from a single language against words from other languages in order to select the word with the highest score. In some cases, this means that the word from a language that 'won' is not the best word for the concept in the language. Instead, subject to a littleeducated guesswork, we have words that offer a reasonable cognate-like memory hook between the Lojban word and a related source-language word. A second note, is that words are Lojbanized phonetically. This can result in some strange-looking spellings; e.g. English and Russian vowels and final consonants often change. I'll schematically outline the information for the first word: 714c katna 82.00 cut [Algo [Lojban [score [English run #] word] (0-100)] keyword] [This line is from a summary file of algorithm outputs, prepared manually at thetime we made the words.] kan kat kat kort kas kata [Lojbanized phonetic forms of the source language words - the order of words is Chinese, English, Hindi, Spanish, Russian, Arabic. We have not yet manually gone back to our paper originals to get the Romanized natural language spellings. Note: some declensional word endings were systematically removed toget a true root. This was to avoid getting a false recognition score solely from the declension. The stop component of affricates were removed for the samereason. There were a few other systematic a priori modifications to the source language words that I can respond to if anyone has questions about a word. Notethat the source word may not be the best word for the concept in the language. We aren't expert in all these languages, and in any case wanted to have a memoryhook for the word more than a cognate. (cut ) [English keyword from the algorithm output file] katna 82.00 3 3 3 0 2 4 [Lojban word and score from the output file - there were occasional typos in making the manual summary, which we are only now finding (about 3-4% error rate - we were working quickly and didn't check ourselves well). The 6 digits are scores for the 6 source words, in order. The numbers represent phoneme matches,in order - a score of 1 was considered useless for recognition, and a score of 2required the phonemes to be adjacent or separated by exactly one phoneme in BOTHsource and Lojban. Thus 'kort' from Spanish gets a 0 score even though it has some cognate value.] 714c katna 82.00 cut kan kat kat kort kas kata (cut ) katna 82.00 3 3 3 0 2 4 714c klaku 60.90 weep (cry) ku krai vilap ior plak baka (weep ) klaku 60.90 2 2 2 0 3 2 714c krixa 61.30 cry out xan krai cila grit kric sarax (cry out ) krixa 61.30 2 3 2 2 3 2 714c kulnu 45.20 culture uen kalcr sabiat kultur kultur takaf uen kalcr sanskrit kultur kultur takaf uen kalcr sabiat kultur kultur tarbut uen kalcr sanskrit kultur kultur tarbut (culture ) kulnu 45.20 2 2 0 4 4 0 714c mitre 89.40 meter mi mitr mitar metr mietr mitr (meter ) mitre 89.40 2 4 4 3 4 4 714c sanmi 62.90 meal san mil bojan sen eda taam (meal ) sanmi 62.90 3 2 2 2 0 2 714c sefta 60.00 surface/face 2/2o lower score no conflict [the highest score word was used] se srfis satax kostad pavierxnast satxa (surface ) sefta 60.00 2 2 3 3 0 3 714d bersa 57.00 son er san beta ix sin ibn er san beta ix sin najl (son ) bersa 57.00 2 2 3 0 0 0 714d pruxi 53.00 spirit guei spirit pret espiritu dux rux (spirit ) pruxi 53.00 2 3 2 3 2 3 714d suksa 61.20 sudden su sadn saxsa subit vdruk faja su sadn saxsa subit vdruk bagta (sudden ) suksa 61.20 2 2 3 2 2 0 714e cidja 61.45 food/feed ci fid bojan komid pic gida (food ) cidja 61.45 2 2 2 2 0 3 714e fetsi 62.14 female/fem- si fem stri feminin jiensk uncau (female ) fetsi 62.14 2 2 2 3 2 0 714e spoja 57.51 explode ja iksplod vispot eksplo vzriv fajar (explode ) spoja 57.51 2 3 3 3 0 2 714f catlu 45.05 look ciau luk dek mir smatr tatala ciau luk dek ve smatr tatala (look at ) catlu 45.05 3 2 0 0 2 3 714f grake 80.70 gram ke gram gram gram gram giram (gram ) grake 80.70 2 3 3 3 3 3 714f krefu 57.53 recur 3/3o lower score no conflict affix [the 3rd best word was taken to give the word a short affix] fu rikr pir rekur pere takrar 714f lijda 42.72 religion (relig-) jiau rilij darm relixio religi din (religious ) lijda 42.72 2 3 2 2 2 0 714f mlana 54.29 side/lateral 4/4o lower score no conflict affix mian latrl satax lad starana janib mian latrl bagal lad starana janib (side ) mlana 54.29 3 2 2 2 3 2 714f rinju 49.08 restrain ju ristrein pratiband refren abuzdiv kabax ju ristrein pratiband refren sdierjiv kabax (restrain ) rinju 49.08 2 3 3 2 0 0 ________________________