On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:20:29 -0400 Elliott Lash <AL260@...> writes:
> 1) *kesli from which came _ceil_ meant a Little Valley, as can be
> seen in Silindion: _keili_ valley. Is it a plausible semantic shift
> from Little Valley to Little Stream in a Little Valley to Stream in
> a Valley?
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Yup, i don't see why not. Sounds perfectly plausible to me.
> 2) In this spread of words, I have included words which are
> interesting because of their (superficial though it is) similarity
> to real world words in various languages.
> _ceil_ is similar to the New York word _kill_ which (besides the
> violent death meaning), is used to describe various small creeks and
> streams.
> Elliott Lash.
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Cool... I love that word (in the waterway meaning, of course ;-) ).
Would any of the conlangers from the Netherlands be able to tell us if
this "kill" is a borrowing from Dutch?
-Stephen (Steg)
"Tobyhanna, Pennsylvannia.
The town where all the boys are named Toby
and all the girls are named Hanna.
Or maybe it's the other way around..."