-----Original Message-----
From: BP Jonsson <bpj@...>
To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU <CONLANG@...>
Date: 11. kesäkuuta 2003 13:43
Subject: Re: Verbs from nouns
>At 10:16 11.6.2003 +0200, David Pettersson wrote:
>>fot foot fota to kick
>
>Actually:
>
>_spark_ "a kick" _sparka_ "to kick"
>
>_fota_ means "to take a photo". As an obsolescent derivative of
>_fot_ "foot" _fota_ means "to found a hypothesis (on something)".
I've been under the impression that _fota_ also can be used for _to fire
someone_ (which incidentally in Swedish usually is _sparka_).
Is this a colloquialism or is it widespread?