Re: Origin of the word 'kivismi'

YHL wrote:>On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
>Er...Is that "seno" and something else?  Otherwise it'd be hard to tell
>the difference, unless I'm missing a character or something....
Ah, dumb me. The female form should be _sena_.


                                                        Andreas
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