Etymograph

English

sumti

Sumti comes from Lojban sumti.

  1. Lojbanmodernsumti1
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1993sumti1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English sumti
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1993, M. Gunderloy, Factsheet Five - Issues 49-53: “Focusing on artificial languages and Lojban in particular. News,…”.

Lineage

  1. LojbanmodernsumtiWiktionary, English sumti
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1993sumtiWiktionary, English sumti. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1993, M. Gunderloy, Factsheet Five - Issues 49-53: “Focusing on artificial languages and Lojban in particular. News,…”

Today it means

noun an argument passed to a selbri (“predicate”)

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “sumti”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Lojban sumti / sumti