Re: R: Re: Uusisuom's influences

On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Roger Mills wrote:

> Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> >bbang in Korean (from Portuguese? pan--whatever it is that's cognate with
> >French pain)
> >terebi in Japanese and Korean
> >etc.
>
> I'm probably being obtuse (Kash: kondrop) but what does terebi mean?
Television.  :-)

> Your _bbang_ is very likely < Port. pão < Lat. pane-. Did the Portuguese
> ever mess around in Korea?  If not, I wonder if you got the word via
> Chinese, as I suspect it also shows up in those marvelous Chinese steamed
> buns called Bao or Pao (bak pao in Indonesia-- they kept me alive).  BTW
> does _bak_ [ba?] mean pork, or just meat?
I don't know if the Portuguese messed around in Korea per se, but I think
they were in the area.  :-p

Er, the usual term for generic meat is "gogi" and for pork, "dwaechi
gogi" (lit. "pig meat").  I don't recognize "bak" and I only have an
English-Korean dictionary on hand.  <sigh>

YHL