Re: Vocab #5

Aidan Grey wrote:
>    1. coffee / bitter drink / culturally distinctive drink
Uanipaskatas, originally uanipapaskatas < uanipa paskatas(va) "water
which wakes one up", generally translated as Wakewater.  In the archaic
U., the habitual suffix wasn't used as much.
HU:
[wAni'pAskAtas]
LU:
Unipaskat'i
[uni'pAsk@tsi]

>        I used to drink coffee.
HU:
Fakaftilvaku uanipaskatas
Fa-  kafti    -l -va =ku    ua-nipaskatas
Past-eat/drink-it-hab=I.nom G6-wakewater
[fAkAf'tSelvAku wAni'pAskAtAs]

LU:
Flauvaku unipaskat'i
Fa-  lau      -l -va =ku    u- nipaskat'i
Past-eat/drink-it-hab=I.nom G6-wakewater
['fl_0owv@ku ?uni'pAk@tsi]

>    5. milk
>        She doesn't take milk in her tea.
The Kassi don't drink milk, except, of course, for their very young who
drink their mother's milk.

>    [p.s. In honor of my becoming the manager of the grad student coffee
> house on campus. Yay!]
Congratulations!

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