Re: water (was:re:sounds like...)

Kristian Jensen wrote:
>
> Interestingly, all the Lumanesian words that have something to do
> with water start with a lateral fricative. That sound has a wet and
> slippery sound to my ears. Perhaps it has got something to do with
> the fact that many such words in English that have that wet and
> slippery feel to it start with the 'sl' cluster;
Perhaps.  I have simmilar associations, s's and r's (and, to a lesser
extent, l's and y's) sound somehow "fluid" to me.  Something like
/siras/ would sound quite watery to me.  However, I didn't use that
association in W.  "Water" is Nni^pa (or wani^pa - I'm considering a
change in the gender system).

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