Re: Translation Relay Update

Well, since the Jakutdoks are still very much the way they always have
been, there aren't many native terms for clothes. Clothes in general for
both sexes are called "Takib ka kaiyo" (the kaiyo said like ka-i-yo),
which means covering cloth (inventive, no? =) ). The traditional clothes
for women is a simple skirt they fasten to themselves with a beaded belt,
and the men used a loincloth that was held on by wrapping it a certain way
(Around the waist, through the legs, and up under the waist band, and then
over it, with a two foot length of cloth hanging in front). Living in a
hot, steamy rainforest, you dont need, or want many clothes. The terms for
western style clothes they take from the Tagalogs who have visited them,
and change to sound how they like it. Jakautdoks are peculiar in that way.
Even if they can pronounce a new word easily they will change the sounds
so it's not as obvious it came from another language (there are
exceptions, see the entry for shirt).  Anyway here's the list of terms
they have for the basic western clothes:

Shirt (any shirt) - baro (from tagalog: baro)
pants - salyaal (from tagalog salawal) (said as: sal-ya-al)
socks - metyas (from tagalog:  medyas)

        They also rarely use these words, unless an anthropologist or other
scientists visit them. Their clothes are also made entirely from cotton
which they call "duluk".


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