Re: Teach Yourself Kamakawi

I'm happy to inform you that "Kamakawi" violates Tairezazh phonology (/w/!
Medial /m/! GAAK!), and the closest adaption "kanakai" doesn't even resemble
anything. Steianzh won't accept unstressed non-schwa vowels; "kamekke" or
"kamege" could mean something, but doesn't seem to. Kalini Sapak and
Tersnuvu have such small vocabs that it's little wonder the word isn't
interpretable, but it doesn't look like it'd mean anything in either, and it
couldn't be a normal, non-loan word in either.

                                          Andreas

Clint Jason Baker wrote:
>Siyo!
>In Kayasanoda I have "kama" but not "kawi" yet.  The
>closest I have is "kawo".  "Kamakawo" means "butterfly
>shoulder".
>
>Dana
>Clint
>
>--- "M.S. Soderquist" <all4thebetter@...> wrote:
> > Your lessons were entertaining to read. :)  I
> > enjoyed it.
> >
> > I just had to go look up what "kamakawi" would mean
> > in ea-luna (my "main"
> > language project) and it turned out, against all
> > odds, that "kama" and
> > "kawi" haven't had meaning assigned to them yet. If
> > I divide it up as
> > ka-maka-wi, I see that "ka" doesn't have an assigned
> > meaning either, but
> > "maka-wi" means "news meanings" -- presumably a word
> > that would have
> > something to do with interpreting news. (I know it
> > is silly, but when I see
> > words that fit into ea-luna, I am always curious
> > about what they mean.)
> >
> > Mia
> >
> > At 04:11 AM 2/28/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> > >Yes, I made good on that suggestion.  ;)
> > >I've written the first three parts (part 0-2) of
> > "Teach Yourself
> > >Kamakawi", with more to follow.  I had a time of
> > it, seeing as the darn
> > >template doesn't seem to recognize the "tab"
> > feature or spaces at the
> > >beginning of a sentence.  Hence, there's no
> > indention (indenture?), and no
> > >neat format.  Nevertheless, it's up, and it should
> > be fun.  Here she is:
> > >
> >
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> > >
> > >Take a look; it'll change your life.*
> > >
> > >-David
> > >
> > >*Not a guarantee
> >
> >
> >
> >
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