Re: Vocab #5

On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 21:15:08 -0400, Herman Miller <hmiller@...> wrote:

>>   2. tea / herbal tea
>>        I drank the tea in one gulp.
>
>T: u xil ["xil] -- from the Gjarrda word for tea (Camellia), which refers
>to the plant as well as the beverage. Gjarrda also has a distinct word
>"traz", which includes beverages made from leaves in boiling water in
>general, but Tirelat lacks an equivalent word. See below under "steep".
>
>l'-gliba-rhi-n  my  lhahsa w'jaki      li -u zjaka
>1s-drink-   -PF ACC coffee by.means.of one-U gulp
Oops, substitute "xil" for "lhahsa". I guess I haven't had enough caffeine
today.