Re: Noun/Verb distinction

Jan van Steenbergen  <ijzeren_jan@...> 2002.09.23. 06:31:28 +1h-kor írta:
>  --- Padraic Brown wrote:
> > --- Mau Rauszer <maurauser@...> wrote:
> > > Like this:
> > > ndo mwe gaš
> > > the wise cat (lit. the cat wise)
> > [...] I like "mwe"; Talarian cats are "mawas".
> An onomatopeia, I presume?
> The Hattic word for cat is "gas".
> Jan
Hm. Archaic Meyadhew tend to borrow the names the races call themselves. And the
original word for cats is mau (actually the first word of Long Wer I borrowed
from Egyptian where it was an onomatopoeia..). Like in Mau Rauser. It means:
the Cat, the Strong Sun.
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Mau
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