Re: Inspiration

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