> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of ROGER MILLS
> Jeff Jones wrote:
> >
> >Interesting -- I've known the spade only as a small digging tool
with just
> >enough handle for one hand and a narrow almost pointed blade. You
have to
> >sit or kneel to use it.
>
> Oh noez. That's a trowel.
>
> I think "some people" need to get out and dig in the dirt a bit
> more.........:-)))))
>
> Anything else is a shovel, including the small plastic toy
> >used by small children at the beach. ....
In Sasxsek they are all a "kudus", which not only means "shovel" or
"spade", but also "scoop" or "spoon". "kud" = "to scoop" + "-us" =
"implement for ...".