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Re: R: Re: Uusisuom's influences

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Monday, April 2, 2001, 4:11
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? 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? Another probable Port. loan, evidently undetected in a 1927 reconstruction of "Ambonese" *k@tana 'sword': Jap. katana. Port. cutão.

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