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Etymology of sumti

Borrowed from Lojban sumti.

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noun

an argument passed to a selbri (“predicate”) · a parameter ("place") in a selbri (“predicate”)'s "place structure", which can be filled with an argument (sumti (“argument”) in the above sense)

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Borrowed from Lojban sumti.

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