Re: CHAT: Vexillology and games (was: Re: Flag ofEngland)
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 22, 2000, 2:57 |
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Barry Garcia wrote:
>>USA! USA! USA! USA!
>>
>>(or, as Kelly Bundy would say: [u:s@])
>
>Hehehe, well actually I forgot to add the accent (written Tagalog doesnt
>add them, which is one of my gripes) anyway, it's "usá". Which just means
>"deer". A doe is "libay">
and ultimately cognate with Ml. _rusa_ 'deer'. So now we can have shouting
matches: USA! RUSA! USA! RUSA!
The proto-form is AN *Rusa, where *R stands for the correspondence: Ml.
/r/, Dayak /h/, Jav. zero, Tag. Bis. /g/, with unexpl. irregularities
everywhere.