Re: relay 1: Czevraqis vocbulary details, 1/3 et seq
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 23, 2001, 23:19 |
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Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
>What are your favourite word-clusters in Kash?
Not necessarily a favorite, but one of the lengthier:
MEPU (vt) to do, to make;
(inch.) yumepu to set to work, get to work;
(caus.) rumbepu to put s.o. to work at..., to order s.t. done;
(accid.) cakamepu overloaded/swamped with work;
(noml.) ambepu deed, action; job, work, project; colloq. mepu + poss. id.,
work,
s.t. to do, job, project;
(agt.nom.) kambepu workman, laborer;
(pot.) pomepu doable, feasible; trapomepu not feasible;
mepu-mepu (n) busy-work; camepu-mepu to do busy-work; pretend to work,
goof off;
tramepu left undone, incomplete; not done (either by omission, or because
the work was abandoned, contrast ta rumbende incomplete but due to be
finished);
trambepu unemployed
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