CHAT: coincidence
| From: | René Uittenbogaard <ruittenb@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 15, 2006, 11:36 |
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Browsing through Swahili lessons I came across the following:
Una jiko? - Ninalo.
Do you have a stove? - Yes I have (I have it).
So I start thinking, ninalo? I know that word. Not being fluent in
Calénnawn, I look up the word in my own lexicon:
ninálo - keep, hold, wear, carry, "have" sth.
Although not the verb used to describe "to possess" (which is "ássi"),
it is curiously close. I'm sure I had neven seen any Swahili when I
invented the word in Calénnawn.
René
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