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Re: Some new Brithenig words? Narbonosc help?

From:Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
Date:Thursday, May 24, 2001, 2:16
On Wed, 23 May 2001 16:00:41 -0500, Eric Christopherson <rakko@...>
wrote:

>On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 06:21:45AM +0000, Raymond Brown wrote: >> Just for fun, you might like to consider how 'cheese' and 'hare' turn up in >> Speedwords. >[snip] >> Hare is _zovrap_ >> <-- zo = animal >> to which we add the "associative suffix" -v, to get _zov_ which must be a >> "rodent", according to Dutton. >> We can then take the word _rap_ (fast, quick, rapid) to form the compound >> _zovrap_ "rapid rodent", i.e. hare. >> >> Thinks: hares are not the only rapid rodents I've met. Rats & squirrels >> seems to travel pretty fast IME. > >IIRC hares and rabbits aren't rodents, but lagomorphs.
How old is Speedwords? Lagomorphs were once classified as a suborder of rodents (Duplicidentata). -- languages of Azir------> ---<http://www.io.com/~hmiller/lang/index.html>--- hmiller (Herman Miller) "If all Printers were determin'd not to print any @io.com email password: thing till they were sure it would offend no body, \ "Subject: teamouse" / there would be very little printed." -Ben Franklin

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Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>Speedwords hare (was: Some new Brithenig words? Narbonosc help?)