Re: Interbeing

David Peterson wrote:
>2A) "A mata oliala imata ie kawi ae iko kapivi......  >
This is lovely.  It really flows.  In reading it, I tended to stick in a lot
of glottal stops on vowel-initial words, which makes it sound even more
Hawaiian, or at least  stage-Hawaiian  ;-).  Any possibility that would be a
non-phonemic feature of Kamakawi?

>I see how it's kind of odd to write that last sentence if you've just
>invented a word for the word that you're claiming to not have in your
>dictionary.  Kind of odd when you're the one creating the dictionary.  :)
That's why the Kash translator changed it to "you won't find....in _every_
dictionary...."  Incidentally, he omitted "this" in line 1: ...ri ondeni
kapra _tayu_.

BTW Kash añakrangota ["a.nja.kra.'Ngo.ta] 'dictionary' is a compound of
añakram 'thing that clarifies/explains; explanation' < akram 'clear' plus
kota 'word(s)'.

'Vocabulary' FWIW is yundraput kota 'warehouse (of) word(s)', < irreg. yun-
< yurun 'place' plus raput 'put away, store'; it's pretty much a calque of
Indonesian perbendaharaan kata lit. 'treasury of words'