Re: Googol-Granddaddy
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, July 21, 2002, 22:00 |
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Dan Sulani wrote:
In a discussion of a recent
>important discovery of a fossil, the article's author used
>the following word: "googol-granddaddy" when referring
>to the creature whose fossilized skull was found.
Following on my usage in "googlegigglabyte", I guess Kash would have
otanji praka-praka "gazillionth great-granddaddy"; otanji is a diminutive of
proper otama.
ama 'father'
otama 'grandfather (of either parent)'
otambarok 'great-grandfather' (possibly still living, hence a separate
respectful term)
otama sila (lit. gf 3) great-great-gf (unlikely still living)
otama ha ( gf 4) gr-gr-gr-gf et seq.