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Re: Origin of the word 'kivismi'

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Friday, April 27, 2001, 17:14
Henrik Theiling asked:
>Roger Mills <romilly@...> writes: >> >> anak is simply 'child'; 'son', 'daughter' require the words for
male/female.
> >Is there a distinction between `child' (young person) and `child'
(offspring)?> Hmm, not to my knowledge, and I doubt it.....but I'm open to correction. I wonder-- how about Tagalog? (Barry?) There is a word, pemuda, that refers to "young people", more or less teens and maybe nowadays univ. students. ObConlang: confession time: 'child' in Kash is _ana, plural anala_ (both senses, at the moment, but maybe I'll work on that).

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J Matthew Pearson <pearson@...>children & offspring (was Re: Origin of the word 'kivismi')