Re: Telek -- Invent a Language

Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> I haven't done folk-etymologies for anything.  <rueful look>  That's
> neat, though.
It was on accident, too.  I'd made the word for "to sing/chant" be
_kastí_.  Later, I discovered some assimilatory processes, among them
[stS] -> [SS], which turned it to _kassí_.

Another interesting co-incidence, again by accident, is láu, to eat, and
ua-náu, (piece of) fruit.  They're often thought to be related, but
again, are not, láu < ráhu, náu < náqo.  One which actually might be
connected is pitaní (settlement) and pisaní (Family House), derived from
tëné and sëné.  Perhaps in pre-CK, some archaic prefix existed, say
**ë-, which when added to tëné created *ëtëné -> *ëtné -> *ësné -> *sné
-> sëné.  All but the first change is reasonable in the development of
Proto-Kassi-Plia to Common Kassí, it's possible that it was an
exceptional change, or that it occured in another dialect and was
borrowed into the dialect that gave rise to CK.

> I'm thinking of incorporating Tuvan/Mongolian throat-singing
What's "throat-singing"?

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