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tanru

Pronunciation: /ˈtænɹuː/

The English word “tanru” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

  1. A compound brivla (“content word”): that is, a sequence of two or more brivla with possible intervention/incrustation of cmavo to modify the way in which the brivla associate. (Left on their own, the brivla behave in a left-associative manner, where each brivla is modified by the brivla or sub-tanru to its left, before going on to modify the brivla to its right.) The component brivla maintain…

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