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Discussion of "bicydja"
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Comment #1: confusing
guskant (Thu Oct 24 12:11:14 2013)

bicydja is confusing. If it means "food eaten by bees", it does not
necessarily recall honey because many species of bees are carnivorous. If
it means "food taken from bees", it does not necessarily recall honey
because larvae of bees are popular food of Japanese people. I suggest
bicysakta for "honey".

Comment #2: Re: confusing
Sebastian Frjds (Thu Oct 24 15:45:50 2013)

gusnikantu wrote:
> bicydja is confusing. If it means "food eaten by bees", it does not
> necessarily recall honey because many species of bees are carnivorous.
If
> it means "food taken from bees", it does not necessarily recall honey
> because larvae of bees are popular food of Japanese people. I suggest
> bicysakta for "honey".

My first objection was that honey isn't really a saccharid, but the gismu
definition sakta (=sugar [sweet edible]) isn't about the chemical
composition , so sakta could probably refer to all kinds of sweet
edibles.
Honey might be produced not only by bees, but also by other insects, but
that's not a very salient meaning of the word honey, so I that's fine.

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