16. CV'V cmavo of selma'o BAI with irregular forms

There are 65 cmavo of selma'o BAI, of which all but one (``do'e'', discussed in Section 6), are derived directly from selected gismu. Of these 64 cmavo, 36 are entirely regular and have the form CV'V, where C is the first consonant of the corresponding gismu, and the Vs are the two vowels of the gismu. The remaining BAI cmavo, which are irregular in one way or another, are listed in the table below. The table is divided into sub-tables according to the nature of the exception; some cmavo appear in more than one sub-table, and are so noted.

   cmavo   gismu       comments

    Monosyllables of the form CVV:

    bai bapli
    bau bangu
    cau claxu
    fau fasnu
    gau gasnu
    kai ckaji   uses 2nd consonant of gismu
    mau zmadu   uses 2nd consonant of gismu
    koi korbi
    rai traji   uses 2nd consonant of gismu
    sau sarcu
    tai tamsmi  based on lujvo, not gismu
    zau zanru

    Second consonant of the gismu as the C:
        (the gismu is always of the form CCVCV)
    
    ga'a    zgana
    kai ckaji   has CVV form (monosyllable)
    ki'i    ckini
    la'u    klani   has irregular 2nd V
    le'a    klesi   has irregular 2nd V
    mau zmadu   has CVV form (monosyllable)
    me'e    cmene
    ra'a    srana
    ra'i    krasi
    rai traji   has CVV form (monosyllable)
    ti'i    stidi
    tu'i    stuzi

    Irregular 2nd V:

    fi'e    finti
    la'u    klani   uses 2nd consonant of gismu
    le'a    klesi   uses 2nd consonant of gismu
    ma'e    marji
    mu'u    mupli
    ti'u    tcika
    va'o    vanbi

    Special cases:

    ri'i    lifri   uses 3rd consonant of gismu
    tai tamsmi  based on lujvo, not gismu
    va'u    xamgu   CV'V cmavo can't begin with ``x''