Re: The Birds and the Bees of Gender
| From: | Adam Raizen <araizen@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 5, 1999, 6:07 |
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Nik Taylor wrote:
> Parents are the one exception, padre/madre - this is true in ALL
> language, father and mother are always different roots.
>
Actually, that's not quite true.
In Hawai`ian, parent is makua. Mother is makuahine, also spelled
makuwahine; woman is wahine. Father is makua ka~ne (~ is a macron).
Ka~ne means male/husband/man. In Hawai`ian, father and mother have the
same root.
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Adam Raizen
araizen@softhome.net