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Re: New conlang - Ichwara Prana

From:Pascal A. Kramm <pkramm@...>
Date:Thursday, November 25, 2004, 16:12
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:41:17 -0500, Geoff Horswood
<geoffhorswood@...> wrote:

>On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:00:05 -0500, Pascal A. Kramm <pkramm@...> wrote: > >>Actually, they'd rather bite off their tongue than speaking of "god", and >>the "GD" from the Jewish bible is always reproduced as "Gada" (and only >>regarded as one of many entities). > >AFAIK, the word/name "God" is an Anglo-Saxon Germanic root. The >Hebrew/Jewish words are El, Elohim, Elohe (as in the expression "El Elohe >Yisrael"), the Tetragrammaton, and those names & words used to refer to >that name oliquely (such as Hashem, "the Name"). > >How do they get "Gada" from the Jewish bible? Are they using an English >translation of a Jewish holy book or what?
"Gada" simply developed from "GD". This is because of Sanskrit influence: in Sanskrit, every consonant has an inherent "a" attached to it. So, when they tried to pronounce "GD", it ended up as /gada/. Eventually, it was also written "Gada" (not just pronounced /gada/). Some other examples are: "CD" is always pronounced /Cada/, and "DVD" is always pronounced /davada/. Same with all other abbreviations without vowels (or unsufficient vowels). -- Pascal A. Kramm, author of Choton official Choton homepage: http://www.choton.org

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