| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 31, 2000, 6:17 |
H.S.Teoh wrote: the Malay loan of "tire" is "tayar").> Hmph, that's too easy. Indonesian uses _ban_ (< Dutch band, I think), leading to the oft-cited minimal pair for "juncture" or whatever it's called: ban tuan 'master's tire' (tuan is nowadays somewhat stigmatized, a very respectful 'you' with colonialist overtones) bantuan 'help, assistance', /bantu + an/