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Jorge Llamb?as scripsit:

> > Why, it "mluni", which really means "orbits".
>
> Doesn't it rather plini (which also means "orbits")?

I meant "plini", yes.

> Is plini a kind of mluni, mluni a kind of plini, or are they contraries?

They are vague and overlapping categories.

> > I have also been known
> > to use this word for "going around the corner" (of the street).
>
> So mluni does not require a closed orbit?

Perhaps. Does a parabolic-orbit comet plini around the Sun? I don't know.

> It's weird that we have words for very specific kinds of movement
> (muvdu, mluni, carna) but no word for movement in general.

Remind me what's insufficiently general about muvdu other than its
inapplicability to orbiting.

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