Re: R: Re: Uusisuom's influences
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 2, 2001, 4:11 |
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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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