Re: asking for the bathroom

Steg Belsky wrote:
>> > this time I can't even ask the way to the bathroom in my lang!
>
>> LOL!  Let's see, Teonaht:  Kwa'r perva li ... bav memwot?
>> I just asked for the water room.  I can't believe that I have no
>> word for
>> toilet in Teonaht.  And then all the politeness conventions.  You
>> can't
>> just baldly say "where's the shit stool?"  There have to be
>> circumlocutions,
>> idioms, metaphors.  Any suggestions or conlang examples?
>> Sally
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>
>Rokbeigalmki would be:
>
>"Pawa dashlekp-a (uz)?"
>
>pawa = 'where'
>dashlek = 'release'
>_p = 'place'
>-a = 'the'
>uz = 'it'
>
>So "bathroom/restroom" is _dashlekp_, "releasing place".  To 'release' is
>the adult polite expression for going to the bathroom>
Interesting.  In Indonesian, it's "buang air" 'throw-out water'; there's air
kecil 'little water' and air besar 'big water'.  The place is called
"dibelakang" lit. (at) behind or "out back" which  it often is. Not a place
one wants to spend a lot of time in.  The word seems to function as a noun
in the question "dimana dibelakang" 'where's the toilet?", but OTOH cf. "ia
kebelakang" 'he's gone to the toilet'.

Kash: eyurun lit. 'the(specific) place'.  Riyena eyurun 'where's the
toilet?'