Re: Origin of the word 'kivismi'

Hi!

Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> writes:
> YHL wrote:
> >I applaud the attempt at gender neutrality, but Korean *doesn't*
> >distinguish *at all* between male and female in pronouns (though there
> >*is* a significant male-side bias in kinhip terminology), and I don't
> >know *anyone* who thinks Korea has an egalitarian society vis-a-vis
> >male-female relationships.
>
> We should all adopt the Tairezazh system! ;-)
> The basic root is 'sen', meaning little more than "3rd sg pronoun". Then
> there are gender speciffic forms 'seno' "he" and 'seno' "she". All three
> inflect can be pluralized and inflect for all four cases.
Couldn't resist:

Hey, but Tyl-Sjok is also completely regular.  :-))

The only words that contain information about gender are `jan' (he)
and `jas' (she).  All other words completely lack gender marking.  You
cannot even say `she'.

(All start with j- because things related to sentient beings, usually
humans, start with j-.  However, that's only a hint, no rule.).

 jan   man
 jas   woman

 jat   child
 jax   wife; husband
       (-a- is for outside family relations in the view
       of children)

 jyx   person
       (-y- something completely unrelated to family
       relations)

 jul   one step up in family hierarchy: father; mother
 jut   one step down in fam. hierarchy: son or daughter
 jux   same level: brother; sister (compare jax, jyx)
       (-u- is family relations in the view of children)

And the pronouns:

 jo    I, me, we, us, etc.
       (o is close to the throat, so it's *me*)

 je    you (sg.), you (pl.), your, ...
       (e is far away from the throat, so it's you)

 ja    he, she, it;
       (a is somewhere outside the vowel system: the other)

Totally regular.

**Henrik