Re: me and my languages

Sally Caves wrote:


>"Cakendrop."  That's priceless.  Can I adopt it as
>a foreign word in Teonaht?
By all means.  But note, it's _cakondrop_ [tSa'kondrop]

>Does it have an etymology?
Accidental (caka-) form of kondrop 'to be obtuse, dense, unwilling or unable
to understand s.t.'   So cakondrop means about the same, but is more
emphatic and pejorative.  Now that I check the dictionary, it could be (ex
post facto) an intensified form of _hondo_ 'stupid', **nasalization +
xo-r-ndo + phonaesthetic /-p/, which occurs frequently on items representing
odd, dumb, or yucky things.

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