Re: Some new Brithenig words? Narbonosc help?
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 24, 2001, 2:16 |
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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).
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