Re: Different words for one thing

> The words in question are two pairs, meaning 'water'
> and 'fish'.
>
> u    [u]      'drinkable or flowing water'
> huti ['PutSi] 'undrinkable water, unmoving dirty water'
>
Cool..although touristy people for your language might just say u for
all types of water

> joki ['joki]  'a fish (alive and/or swimming)'
> fury ['furi-] 'a fish (dead and/or served as food)
From Spanish? Well, I know that French has different ones for
chicken..poulet and I can't remember the other one...then there's
pork/pig beef/cow KFC/chicken in English...languages apparently
distinguish between living and dead...but wouldn't it just be easier to
remember one word for each animal, and add an adjective? 'food chicken'
'living chicken' 'dead chicken' etc..of course, this is bulkier, and
takes more adjectives...Oh yeah, and there's an Eskimo language with
like, 14 or 15 words for snow, depending on it's consistancy, what
animal it's on, what time of day it fell, etc..so doing more than one
word for one object is not unusual (happy and glad..fear and
scared...rapidly and fast)

-Axiem
-axiem@swbell.net