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Re: Inspiration

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Thursday, March 6, 2003, 13:50
Quoting Peter Bleackley <Peter.Bleackley@...>:

> A while back, I saw a newspaper article, which quoted the following > verbs > from the Mailu language of Papua. I thought I'd share them with you. > > daridari - to cook > darikarau - to cook secretly > daribedaubedau - to cook to a pulp > daribunubunu - to cook in the wrong pot > daridaroro - to cook lazily > darigididigidi - to cook to bits > dariputara - to undercook (of sago) > dariwuwu - to be unaccustomed to cooking.
I know zilch of Mailu, but to me it looks that the first one is merely a replicated form of the stem _dari_, and the rest this stem combined with various adverbial elements written as one word, except the last, which's apparently indeed another verb derived from the stem. Andreas