Re: word choice process (was: Announcement Follow-up)

On Sunday, August 5, 2001, at 06:49 PM, Nik Taylor wrote:

> Henrik Theiling wrote:
>>> sa [sa] < Kor. sam -- 3
>>
>> Yippie I know that word!
>
> Is that from Chinese?  Japanese has the Sino-Japanese form _san_ for
> "three"
I believe so, yes; at least, it's listed under "Sino-Korean numbers" as
opposed to just plain "Korean numbers" in the textbook my mom had me
workign out of last winter.
   Sino-Korean   Korean
1 il            hana
2 i             deul
3 sam           saet
4 sa            naet
5 o             daseot
6 yuk           yeoseot
7 ch'il         ilgop
8 pal           yeodeol
9 gu            ahop
10 sip          yeol

etc.  At least, I hope I got the tranlisterations right.

YHL