L E P/Quantity

Lexical Expansion Project

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be of a certain dimension, be so long, be so wide (B)

The plant was three hands tall.

This might be an idiom for different dimensions, but Greek, for example, has a special verb to state distances.

be a certain age (B)

My son is three years old.

some (amount) (A)

Some people don't like teylu.

half (A)

His family got half the yerik.

Half, a third and a quarter seem fairly primary. Will the Na'vi have a generalized way to form fractions?

some (A)

Some people like to eat teylu.

Many people are also desperate for a clear way to say "someone".

package, bundle, collection (B)

He brought in a bundle of fern leaves.

There was a collection of bones in the thanator den.

Something like pongu but for inanimate objects